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Vedere il mio paese in ginocchio, che annaspa nella peggiore crisi cui io abbia assistito da quando sono nata, e per di più a una impotente distanza di sicurezza, mi provoca un dolore indescrivibile. Capisco di più in questi giorni perché ho scelto di servirlo, il mio paese, di dedicare la mia vita e le mie energie alla mia bella italia. Malgrado l...

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Italy got the message. On the first day of Europe’s first nationwide restriction on movement and public gatherings to stem the rampant spread of the coronavirus, Italians steered clear of their streets, shops, churches and soccer fields. They obeyed the government’s “I Stay Home” decree, announced on Monday night by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte wi...

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“Italy will not let you down,” my wise friend Judy Witts Francini told me today. And I in turn thought, “we will not let Italy down.” When the news came in yesterday that the entire country of Italy was in lockdown (or “grounded” as Frances Mayes said, she always has the right words), I was in the edit room working on my most ambitious project yet,...

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Eros Ramazzotti rinuncia al gran finale del Vita ce n'è World Tour previsto a Los Angeles per il 13 marzo prossimo. Il tour che ha debuttato il 14 febbraio 2019 e che in questi 14 mesi ha conquistato tutto il mondo è in buona parte italiano, suonato, realizzato e organizzato da professionisti italiani ed Eros Ramazzotti, RadioRama e Vertigo non han...

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Italian doctors celebrated one small victory in their battle against the coronavirus after a 38-year-old man was moved out of intensive care for the first time since he tested positive Feb. 21 and opened Italy’s health care crisis as Patient No. 1. But in the rest of hard-hit northern Italy, the virus’ spread was growing so exponentially that docto...

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After cancelling his Milan Fashion Week show due to coronavirus, and seeing Northern Italy be plagued by the health crisis, fashion designer Giorgio Armani has donated 1.25 million euros to help combat coronavirus with money going toward Italian hospitals and other institutions working to fight the health crisis. The Luigi Sacco hospital, San Raffa...

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Welcome to Italy—we’re open for business. That’s the message Allison Scola wants to share in this episode of The Italian American Podcast. With Coronavirus spreading throughout Italy and the world, we sit down with Scola, the founder, owner, and curator of Experience Sicily and the New York Cannoli Crawl (and 2019 New York Times Travel Show Expert)...

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È uscito da qui il primo vaccino anti-Ebola che, nel 2014, per fermare la pandemia dilagante nel Continente africano, ottenne l’autorizzazione alla produzione di un milione di dosi, in un giorno (contro i tempi molto più lunghi delle sperimentazioni ordinarie). Alcuni anni prima, nel 2009 fu lo stesso laboratorio, l’Irbm di Pomezia (al tempo di pr...

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Ferrari has announced that its factory and headquarters are operating for the moment, despite being located inside the area of Italy that has been placed under quarantine to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. In a statement, Ferrari said that the measures introduced by the Italian government on March 8 allow for some level of "continued w...

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The Navy is shutting schools, child development centers and base gyms at Naval Support Activity Naples, and cancelling “base group activities” starting Tuesday, joining Army and Air Force efforts to fight the spread of the coronavirus in Italy. In an announcement posted Sunday on the NSA Naples Facebook page, Navy officials said the measures are “b...

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