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Italy has announced fines of up to €3,000 for those violating quarantine rules as the number of Coronavirus-related deaths in Italy reaches 6,820, reports Italian news agency ANSA. Italian premier Giuseppe Conte announced the latest measures in a live-streamed address on 24 March, saying that those found on the streets without a legitimate reason t...

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Fr. Giuseppe Berardelli, a 72-year-old priest in Italy has died from coronavirus. Fr Berardelli, from Casnigo, in the Bergamo province in northern Italy, had reportedly tested positive for coronavirus. It is said that he gave a respirator which was purchased for him by his parishioners to a younger patient suffering from the virus. The news, report...

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In just the last week the numbers of those afflicted by COVID-19 have increased dramatically both here and in Italy. The National Italian American Foundation’s (NIAF) goal at this unprecedented time in our country’s history is to connect and help our Italian American community here in the United States while we work with those who can help the peop...

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The man known in Italy as Patient No. 1 in the country's devastating outbreak of the coronavirus is out of hospital a month after he arrived in critically ill condition. Authorities in Italy's hardest hit region of Lombardy played an audio message recorded by the 38-year-old man in which he says, "You can get cured of this illness." The man identif...

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Bucatini, anchovy fillets in olive oil, cans of San Marzano tomatoes, Sicilian extra virgin oil olive — these are items we buy from grocery stores or consume at restaurants and don’t think much about where they came from. As the coronavirus pandemic continues, Americans are learning not to take food for granted, especially food that comes from nort...

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With Italy under quarantine and schools closed, many families face a long connement together. Clinical psychologist and home education specialist Naomi Fisher offers some tips for keeping children entertained and learning. No one expected this, and no one is prepared. Across Europe children are off school, perhaps for months, and their parents are...

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“In questi giorni, l’Italia è attanagliata dall’epidemia di coronavirus tuttavia questo non significa che la natura ferma il suo corso è così la produzione agroalimentare va avanti con l’impegno dei tanti agricoltori e di tutti gli altri lavoratori impegnati nelle attività di filiera”. Così in una nota Fucsia Nissoli, deputata di Forza Italia elett...

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Look down into the waters of the Venice canals today and there is a surprising sight – not just a clear view of the sandy bed, but shoals of tiny fish, scuttling crabs and multicoloured plant-life. “The water is blue and clear,” said Gloria Beggiato, who owns the celebrated Metropole Hotel a few steps from St Mark’s square and has a view over the V...

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On the streets of Italy there is singing. The very few who cannot sing are playing instruments. Those without instruments are turning pots and pans into makeshift timpani orchestras. Those without improvised equipment are dancing. In Milan, a gentleman plays "O mia Bela Madunina" on his trumpet ― a song considered to be an anthem of the northern It...

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For more than 30 years, Mauro Morandi has been the sole inhabitant of a beautiful island in the Mediterranean Sea. For the past few weeks his hermit's hut has been an aptly isolated location from which to watch the global coronavirus crisis unfold. And, after being alone with his own thoughts for so much of his life, he's got some insight into the...

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