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The first country outside Asia to experience the coronavirus pandemic on a large scale was Italy. It was the first to go into lockdown and impose a national quarantine, on March 9. And it is the part of Europe that suffered most. As of May 3, 29,000 people were known to have lost their lives because of Covid-19. The actual figures are likely to be...

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Importers and distributors of Italian food in America are coming up with flexible solutions to overcome unprecedented challenges during the coronavirus pandemic. Keeping staff at work, reallocating goods across clients, turning to e-commerce for delivery, and support the foodservice community were among the main talks facing the food industry to co...

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Linda and Michael Passaro own and operate Hawthorne’s Primo Amore, an Italian restaurant that hosted parties and banquets prior to the coronavirus pandemic which upended the restaurant industry.  In the days that followed, restaurants of all types had to rapidly reinvent themselves to stay afloat, offering take-out, delivery, and road-side pick up...

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Numerous events and festivities set for summer and fall 2020 have already been canceled throughout McKean, Elk, Cameron and Potter counties. Festa Italiana, a long-standing tradition in Bradford, is another occasion that could be impacted by concerns related to the Coronavirus Pandemic. The Bradford Era reached out Wednesday to Mary Ann Colestro, P...

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The novel coronavirus has upended our world over the past few months, forcing people to learn how to work in entirely new ways. For scientists in particular, Isaac Newton has repeatedly been held up as a model of epidemic-induced productivity, since he spent his 1666 “year of miracles” avoiding the plague in the English countryside and developing h...

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Marisa Fusaro, an Italian teacher at Hawthorne High School of ten years, makes her home in neighboring North Haledon with her husband and young son.  Between juggling the demands of an unprecedented remote-teaching experience and taking care of her toddler, she has managed to also raise money and distribute masks and protective face shields to heal...

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Virus-hit Italy has closed its schools until September, but is drawing up plans to re-open nurseries and hold mini summer schools for children desperate to play after two months of lockdown. Kindergartens and day nurseries may be used from June for small groups of children aged zero to six years, according to plans being drawn up by the education m...

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As Italy gradually emerges from its two-month coronavirus lockdown, tourism operators in the hard-hit Val Seriana valley look ahead with trepidation at an uncertain summer season that could make or break them. An Associated Press photographer ventured into towns in Italy's hard-hit Bergamo province along the Orobie mountain range to capture residen...

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Distanced from school, friends, and social gatherings, Italian teens have been locked inside for about two months. In confinement and surrounded by family, life carries on in strange, but sometimes recognizable, ways: classes are live streamed, sports take place via Skype, oral and written tests are taken via Google Hangout. This technology has res...

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Italy in Crisis, sembra un ritornello, ma diviene leitmotiv di un pensiero solidale nei confronti del Bel Paese. Soprattutto tra gli 80 milioni di Italiani nel Mondo, originari e oriundi. Filitalia International e Metropolitan Project con Smart Congressional Initiative di Philadelphia uniti per aiutare l’Italia. Un aiuto che parte direttamente dal...

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