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Italian authorities are trialling a new super-fast saliva test for Covid-19 which can give results in just three minutes. The new test, called the "Daily Tampon", is being trialled by the Italian health ministry and is expected to be approved for production soon, Italian media reported on Wednesday. Tampone is the Italian word for a swab test - tho...

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Despite taking all the necessary COVID-19 precautions—and then some—and at great cost, many restaurant owners across Northeast Ohio are struggling to break through the perception that in-person dining isn't safe. For the owners of Mama Catena Vino e' Cucina, a 31-year-old fixture in Euclid's dining scene, the constant struggle between sanitation an...

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Being quarantined leaves you a lot of time to ponder upon stuff — even if you actually work from home so you need to pump through your 8 hours a day writing and editing anyway. Some reflect on the meaning of life and the necessity to “slow down” for real, even after Covid-19 will leave us alone, others have taken up the romantic role of their house...

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Andrea Crisanti was on a 30-hour flight from Italy to Australia for a conference on 22 February when some disturbing news appeared on his phone. Italy had just had its first COVID-19 death, and more cases were accumulating fast. He asked conference organizers to move his talk to the first day, and made the grueling trip back home after that. “It’s...

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A second home in Italy? It's the dream. For married couple Marco Cavalli and Sunaina (known as Suni) Lobo of Oaklandh, California, it became a reality over a year ago. When coronavirus lockdowns seemed to put living that dream on indefinite hold, Cavalli and Lobo didn't give up on finding a way to spend much-needed time with family and friends this...

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In just a few weeks, Italy was taken back to at least three months ago. We should rewind the tape to around May 12 to find Covid-19 daily statistics similar to those reported on August 23, when the country recorded more than 1,200 new infections—the highest daily increase since the end of the lockdown. As we are writing this article, on August 24,...

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The global pandemic is having a huge impact on the international economy and according to the Institute of International Finance this crisis could be considered the third but greatest financial and social nightmare of the current century, after 9/11 and the global financial crisis of 2008. Even the tourism industry, one of the most profitable, has...

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If statues could talk, what stories would they tell? Massimiliano Finazzer Flory is a gifted playwright, director and actor who has been promoting Italian culture in the US for years. His new short film Ali Dorate – Golden Wings – filmed in a city under lockdown, animates public statues across Milan during the tragic days when the coronavirus rende...

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Human trials of an Italian-developed covid-19 vaccine have begun on volunteers at Rome's Spallanzani hospital on 24 August, reports Italian news agency ANSA. The first person to volunteer for the vaccine, a 50-year-old woman, was inoculated at 08.30 this morning at the Spallanzani, a specialist centre for infectious diseases which has played a cent...

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Exports of italian wine have dropped four percent so far this year after the virus forced the closure of restaurants in Italy and elsewhere, hitting the country's producers and exporters hard. The pandemic has reduced demand to the lowest level seen in 30 years, Italy's agricultural trade union Coldiretti said on Friday. In June, the Italian govern...

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