Close

The growth rate of total COVID-19 cases in Italy has been slowing since March 8, according to the Italian Civil Protection Department, and, in the past few days, the total new daily cases have finally started to shrink, suggesting Italy is ‘flattening the curve,’ meaning that it is slowing the spread of the virus. Italy was the first country in Eur...

1558

Aveva scritto alla mamma «Non ti lascio sola» prima di entrare in coma farmacologico. Le aveva scritto «Devo andare, non ti lascerò». Mattia, 18 anni, di Cremona, ha rispettato quella promessa: in queste ore si è svegliato ed è stato estubato. È ancora in terapia intensiva, dove è tenuto sotto osservazione, ma nelle prossime ore sarà trasferito. St...

506

Across Italy, music has been connecting people as 60 million have been confined to their homes. At the end of the first week of the national lockdown, an initiative was launched in Rome which touched the whole country. Brass collective Fanfaroma’s Flash Mob Sonoro urged people to “open the windows, step out onto the balcony and play together”. Some...

437

Featured on the March 26th, 2020 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore: — Fabian Alfie PhD, a professor at the University of Arizona, tells about Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron. It is a masterpiece of Italian medieval literature that can teach contemporary people about surviving a pandemic with hope intact. — Hear the story of a...

736

American giants of fast food and soft drinks support Italy's battle against Covid-19. McDonald's Italy, the Italian branch of the American fast-food chain, has donated €1 million to support the treatment of Coronavirus patients in Milan. The donation, made together with McDonald's franchisees and the Ronald McDonald Children's Foundation, will go t...

634

In 1978, when the Italian National Health Service (Servizio Sanitatio Nazionale) was formed, the Italian health care system was ranked one the of the best in the world.  Health care in Italy is based on communal, rather than individual, ideas of success and care. With an aim of universal coverage, human dignity and solidarity all applicable service...

512

Their eyes are tired. Their cheekbones are rubbed raw from protective masks. They don’t smile. Tales of grim scenes have emerged from Italian and Spanish hospitals, where the sick have sometimes been left to crowd hallways and doctors and nurses have worked beyond the point of exhaustion to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

456

Dr. Anthony Fauci has won praise amongst many Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially by those who live in the Italian community of Island Park. The Fauci linguini at the town's iconic 80-year old Peter's Clam Bar has been flying out of the kitchen -- but for pick-up only, in compliance with Fauci's social distancing recommendations. Acc...

1134

Una serie di risposte utili, a cura del Consolato Generale d’Italia a Los Angeles, per gli italiani che si trovano negli USA durante l’epidemia Covid19. Collegamenti aerei con l’Italia L’ultimo volo diretto alitalia LAX-FCO è partito domenica 15 marzo, ma continuano a essere attivi collegamenti alitalia JFK-FCO. fino a domani con due voli al giorno...

383

For those struggling with lockdown in Italy right now - or the prospect of it elsewhere - reader Jeff Wilson describes how he and fellow teachers in Milan are coping with the situation. Our minds and bodies are wired to resist change. So it should come as no surprise that we are all struggling to deal with the drastic adjustments to our lifestyles...

1669