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They were the photos that went round the world: Shoals of fish swimming through the Venice canals; an empty St. Mark’s Square; the milky-white Rialto Bridge, free of milling crowds. The city that had struggled so publicly with overtourism in the past few years—an estimated 30 million visitors annually to a city-center with just 50,000 residents—was...

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If you’ve been working from home for the past several months, it’s likely that you’ve spent more than one lunch break and countless weekends daydreaming about (or even planning) a home renovation. If that is true, you’re not alone! COVID-19 and the ensuing global health crisis has led to a fundamental shift in how many people are thinking about the...

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Naples is proud of its tradition of "caffe sospeso", where a customer pays twice for a coffee so that someone less fortunate can have one for free. Now this act of charity is being extended to coronavirus tests. In the southern Italian city, the local health service is struggling to deal with the number of coronavirus cases and, as in many parts of...

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Rome's Fiumicino airport said on Thursday it had sealed a deal with Italian airline Alitalia and Delta Air Lines of the United States for the special flights between selected North American cities and the Italian capital from next month. Similar travel "corridors" will also be trialed between Rome and the German cities of Munich and Frankfurt, it s...

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Gianni Bernardinello started placing baskets filled with bread, pizza and sweet rolls outside of his bakery in Milan this past March, as Covid-19 battered Northern Italy’s economy and vulnerable population. “To give a hand to those in need,” a sign above the baskets read, “help yourself and think of others too.” Bernardinello passed away on Nov. 9...

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Il vaccino per il Covid-19 richiederà miliardi di flaconi di vetro e in Italia c’è una famiglia che li sta producendo. A Piombino Dese, un piccolo paese alle porte di Venezia, il Gruppo Stevanato, lavora senza sosta: alla fine di giugno, ha firmato un accordo con la Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness and Innovations (CEPI) norvegese, un gruppo sos...

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Italy's mass testing programme to track cases of coronavirus is stretching the public health system to its limit. Poor organisation and widespread delays have left many people without tests, especially in poor neighbourhoods. Health authorities cannot cope with the long queues of people asking to get tested. But private tests cost €60 to €80 and ma...

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Finalists include young scholars active in US universities and research centers. The ISSNAF Lifetime Achievement Award will go to Guido Calabresi, a federal judge in the United States, and professor emeritus at Yale University Law School. They have made discoveries about the immune response in Covid patients, study the effects of the virus on blood...

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The authors of a recent study showing that the coronavirus might have been circulating in Italy far earlier than previously thought have stated that their findings do not in any way dispute the Wuhan, China, origin of the virus. The research, conducted by the National Cancer Institute in the Italian city of Milan and published in the science magazi...

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A significant number of Italians who want to be vaccinated against COVID-19 should have received their shots by next September, Italy's special commissioner for the virus emergency said Thursday. Italy is set to receive 3.4 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine in the second half of January through the European Union's purchase program, enough to pro...

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