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Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte has announced that the entire country is to go into quarantine, as part of emergency measures aimed at halting the spread of the Coronavirus outbreak. The government's extraordinary measures, announced at Palazzo Chigi late on 9 March, comes amid a worsening of the Coronavirus outbreak. Conte said the new strin...

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Italians woke up on Sunday morning, and it was already the future. Overnight, the government announced the most dramatic measures yet taken by a democracy to try to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Other Western countries are watching closely, worried they may soon have to follow Italy’s lead.  Rome placed severe travel restrictions on the en...

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Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte tried to ward off alarm from spreading throughout Europe’s fourth-biggest economy after he personally unveiled drastic measures in the middle of the night to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus. In a hastily convened news conference, the head of a government already hanging by a thread confirmed Italy...

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Tutti, prima o poi, immaginiamo di trovarci improvvisamente catapultati in uno scenario distopico. Influenzati dai romanzi di Isaac Asimov, o magari di Philip K. Dick o di Margaret Atwood, dai film Blade Runner o Matrix, dalle puntate di Westworld, Black Mirror, The Walking Dead, o semplicemente per gioco, o ancora per esorcizzare le paure più prof...

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Rome’s streets are empty, the supermarket shelves loaded with food. My fellow denizens, for once free of the tourist hordes, are enjoying their lives in a state of limbo, waiting for coronavirus to come crashing down around their heads before they start stocking their larders and hunkering down. At least that’s what things were like yesterday. I ca...

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L'Italia è il Paese del Mondo più colpito dall'epidemia di coronavirus COVID-19 dopo la Cina, da cui è partito il contagio, e la Corea del Sud, ma le misure adottate dalle istituzioni italiane in modo tempestivo dopo i primi casi di contagio, in un primo momento criticate da parte della popolazione e dall'opposizione, stanno ricevendo il plauso deg...

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With the second-highest number of deaths from coronavirus after China, Italy is taking drastic measures to try to stem the spread of the virus. There are nearly 4,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country, and 148 confirmed deaths. Italians are having to cope with a number of towns being in lockdown, travel restrictions, and now the two-week clos...

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His ship may have been to hell and back, becoming a floating coronavirus-infected prison for passengers quarantined at port in Japan, but when the captain of the Diamond Princess cruise ship became the last person aboard to finally step onto dry land, he looked entirely unruffled by the experience. If it weren't for the mask on his face, Genn...

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To commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of Raphael, curators of the blockbuster exhibition that opened this week at the Scuderie del Quirinale exhibition space here have gone for a Benjamin Button approach. The exhibition starts by refreshing our memories about Raphael’s repute at the time of his unexpected death in 1520, when the Renaiss...

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Few things could possibly distract Italians—a population prone to health concerns in the best of circumstances—from panicking about an actual infectious epidemic. But one of them is pasta. Better: a debate over pasta. For several days now, parts of northern Italy have either been on lockdown or high alert due to the outbreak of Covid-19. As of Marc...

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