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The coronavirus entered Europe more than once and the first hotbed may have been isolated at Munich in Germany in January, according to a genetic map published Thursday on the Netxstrain site. The site was founded and directed by a group led by Trevor Bedford, of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. The map, a sort of family tree...

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Italy's president Sergio Mattarella has called for "responsibility" in the face of the Coronavirus emergency, urging Italians to "follow carefully" the official guidelines regarding changes to lifestyle and daily habits. "Italy is going through a particularly challenging time and is facing it dutifully with full transparency and completeness of inf...

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Italian grandparents — “nonni” as they are called — were pulled in two contradictory directions on Thursday — and as usual the grandchildren won out. In a decree that took effect Thursday, the Italian government urged the elderly and infirm to stay at home and restricted visits to nursing homes and assisted living facilities to contain the spread o...

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The people in our village of 1400 in east-central Italy are very friendly and gregarious. We cannot step outside very far without someone greeting us, whether we know them or not. It is considered both courteous and a custom of community connection. Yesterday, outside a food market, a very affable man who I often run into seemed ready to issue the...

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I won’t speak about data and numbers, about contagion and hospitalizations: you can get all that type of information somewhere else. I’ve even thought whether writing this article was a good idea, whether bringing such a stark note into our biweekly journey  into the Italian and Italian-American  world was really necessary. Then, upon reflection, I...

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The Covid-19 crisis risks overwhelming even the Italian food sector, which is now forced to run for cover to defend itself from fake news and economic speculations. Among the urgent measures taken by the Italian government to deal with the coronavirus emergency, there are also two interventions that have taken on board the demands of the food and b...

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Roma non si ferma. Rome doesn't stop. There are several ways to translate or interpret this slogan - the title of a new promotional video - whose no-nonsense message conveys a mixture of resistance and hope; a full-steam-ahead, business-as-usual approach. In short, life goes on in Rome. Over the millenia, Rome - Caput Mundi - has been the stage of...

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Si applica sui muri come una normalissima vernice e - a contatto con i batteri presenti nell'aria - li uccide in pochissimo tempo. Ma, sospetta il suo inventore Massimo Bernardoni, potrebbe tornare utile anche nella lotta al coronavirus. Sempre che le istituzioni rispondano alla sua richiesta di testare il prodotto con campioni di Covid-19. Il prod...

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Italy is a safe country, it is safe to live in Italy and it is safe to travel to Italy. The Italian National Health System, among the most efficient in the world, immediately implemented procedures directed at safeguarding citizens and tourists. Intense controls made it possible for the Italian Government to monitor and contain the spreading of Cov...

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For years the business industry has attempted to determine what makes a great leader with the intention of replicating the same and teaching it in classrooms that are meant to shape the new generation of great leaders. Some of the characteristics that have been provided to describe great leaders include having faith in their belief, being passionat...

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