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Italy's president Sergio Mattarella received his first dose of the covid-19 vaccine in Rome at midday today, 9 March. The head of state, who will be 80 this summer, was given the Moderna vaccine at the Spallanzani hospital, a specialist centre for infectious diseases which has played a central role in battling Italy's coronavirus crisis. The Quirin...

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Selfies in front of Botticelli's Venus. Closeups of David's manhood. Bottlenecks climbing to the top of the famous Duomo. Back in the halcyon prepandemic times, Florence was struggling with overtourism. And the Uffizi Gallery -- one of the most popular museums in the world -- was at the center of it all. At its busiest, 12,000 visitors per day pass...

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Anniversary coincides with the prospect of a new lockdown in Italy as well as some startling statistics: 3 million covid-19 cases and 100,000 deaths. On this day last year former Italian premier Giuseppe Conte made an announcement that shocked the world: the entire country would be plunged into lockdown to combat the rising threat from coronavirus....

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Italy is plagued by the so-called “empty crib syndrome.” The country is seeing a steady decline in births with the COVID-19 pandemic only making the outlook gloomier. But there’s one hamlet that fares worse than others and where the syndrome has turned into a chronic disease. Welcome to Fascia, a tiny mountain village of barely 70 residents located...

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In the last year and a half, the pandemic dealt a severe blow to restaurants in New York City, many of them closing, possibly never opening again. For Regina Migliucci-Delfino, Covid-19 not only forced the closure of her restaurant, Mario’s, on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, but claimed the life of her father, Joseph, who died on April 6 at age 81, af...

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Tucked in the Tuscan hills around Siena in Italy, a research lab has come up with an antibody treatment for Covid-19 that its developers say will be 80 times more potent than the one given to former U.S. President Donald Trump in his most critical days in hospital last year. The therapy is derived from the blood of people who’ve recovered from Covi...

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Italy remains in the grip of the coronavirus pandemic, with restrictions on international and domestic travel in place. But as many people look at booking summer trips, when could Italy's holiday hotspots reopen this year? At the moment, most travel to Italy is restricted from non EU-countries, including the US. And while entry into Italy from Euro...

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Italy has blocked the export of around 250,000 doses of the AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine to Australia after the drug manufacturer failed to meet its European Union (EU) contract commitments. The move by Italy, unprecedented in the EU, was made in line with a new European mechanism on export controls, and was taken with the support of the European C...

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'Producing anti-covid vaccines in Italy from the autumn' was the topic of a meeting between industry minister Giancarlo Giorgetti and representatives of Italy's pharmaceutical industry today. Many companies in Italy would be ready to make bulk drug substance - the active ingredient and other components of the vaccines - "because they already have,...

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The dying man’s hand rested in his own. Dr. Haney Mallemat knew the patient was nearing the end. He listened as the man’s agonized daughter cried on a video call as she said goodbye. Then Mallemat witnessed the man’s final breaths. The COVID-19 patient was merely one of many the doctor tried to save as the coronavirus swept across New Jersey. They...

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