Italy was the first industrialized western country to issue a peacetime lockdown when it was announced on March 9. Under the terms of the lockdown, Italians are required to stay home aside from performing certain "vital" tasks, such as food shopping, medical visits, or trips to the pharmacy.
Minister Vincenzo Spadafora told Italian daily La Repubblica that talks about restarting the Serie A soccer league on May 3 are “unrealistic.”
Italy has recorded almost 1,000 Coronavirus deaths, which is the highest number in a day, news agency AFP said in a tweet on Friday.
With a death toll of more than 8,200, more people have died in Italy due to the coronavirus than any other country in the world
A 101-year-old man in the coastal Italian city of Rimini has recovered from the novel coronavirus, the disease which has infected a total of 80,589 people in the country and has claimed the lives of 8,215 others.
Opera singer Gioconda Vessichelli is in lockdown in Italy. She connected with India TV through WhatsApp call to talk about COVID-19 outbreak in the country.
Italy's health professionals were paying a high price in this emergency. Fatalities linked to the COVID-19 included 31 doctors, of which at least five were family doctors who died in the last 24 hours, the Italian federation of general medicine physicians said on Wednesday.
Coronavirus outbreak: The most affected regions remained northern Lombardy (18,910 positive cases), Emilia Romagna (7,220), Veneto (4,986), and Piedmont (4,529), plus central Marche (2,358) and Tuscany (2,301), data showed. Lombardy's regional authorities also reported slight positive signals on Monday, yet sounding cautious as well.
Kareena Kapoor shares a throwback photo with Saif Ali Khan from Rome to pray for the people of Italy suffering and fighting from the novel coronavirus.
Italy has recorded 793 new deaths and 6,557 new cases in one single day from coronavirus taking country's toll to 4,825. With such a huge figure, 38.3 per cent of the people who have died after getting infected with COVID-19 are from Italy.
A married man in UK, who tested positive for coronavirus is in a sweat after he caught COVID-19 during a secret trip to Italy with his mistress. The man, in his late 30s, told his wife that he was on a business trip within the United Kingdom.
Coronavirus outbreak: Globally, more than 2 lakh people have been infected with the virus while the death toll has crossed 8000. The number of cases of the virus continued to surge with the virus spreading to all states in the US.
Italy, Europe's worst coronavirus-hit country and the world's second after China, on Tuesday reported a further 345 deaths in the past 24 hours.
Italy on Sunday (local time) reported 368 deaths in the last 24 hours due to coronavirus even as the total death toll due to the deadly virus in the European country rose to 1,809.
Coronavirus-battered Italy reported 368 more coronavirus deaths on Sunday, a new one-day "record".
Twenty-one passengers, who were stranded in coronavirus-hit Italy, were brought here on Saturday following which they were shifted to Aluva hospital for investigation, airport sources said.
"Where are we supposed to go?," a woman, stranded at an airport in Italy, who had booked her tickets to Kerala, was heard saying in a video which has gone viral in the social media.
In addition to visa restrictions already in place, people traveling from or having visited Italy and South Korea will now have to mandatorily submit a certificate of having tested negative for COVID-19 from laboratories authorized by the health authorities of their countries
The Italian Olympic Committee, which oversees all sporting events in the country, said in a statement that the suspension will last until April 3 and that it would request a government decree to impose its decision.
Italy has taken a leaf out of China's book and quarantined as many as 16 million people in its northern provinces because of the coronavirus scare. The number of people quarantined now accounts for a quarter of Italy's total population. This desperate measure has been taken by the Italian government because of the ever-increasing number of coronavirus cases in Italy. With 5,800 confirmed cases of coronavirus and over 200 deaths, Italy is now being termed as the coronavirus capital of Europe.
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