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Italy's government is aiming for COVID-19 vaccine independence as it invests in a local biotech company following "encouraging" Phase I trial results. Domenico Arcuri, Italy's COVID-19 emergency commissioner, said earlier this week that the country would invest in Italian biotech company, ReiThera, to support the development of its vaccine. The sin...

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Plainfields' UNICO President Bob Bengivenga (Right) and New Jersey District X Governor Anthony Bengivenga (Left) send their virtual greeting to the regional volunteer firefighters in Bergamo province in Italy known as the "Vigili Del Fuoco Isole Bergamasca", whose commander is Luigi Mandelli.   Twelve years ago in December 2008, UNICO officers  Bob...

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On Wednesday the EUropean Medicines Agency (EMA) announced it had approved the Moderna vaccine in the fight against Covid-19. It follows approval last month for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine that is in the process of being rolled out across the EU. The final authorisation for the Moderna vaccine will need to be granted by the EU Commission. Commissio...

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An Italian nurse who was caring for COVID-19 patients proposed to his girlfriend by writing a letter on his protective gear and uploading it on the social media. The girlfriend immediately said yes. According to media outlets including The Guardian on Saturday, Giuseppe Pungente who works at a hospital in Puglia, southern Italy posted a photo of hi...

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From his newsstand at the bottom of two hilly streets in Rome, Armando Alviti has been dispensing newspapers, magazines and good cheer to locals from before dawn till after dusk nearly every day for more than a half-century. “Ciao, Armando,” his customers greet him as part of their daily routine. “Ciao, amore (love)” he calls back. Alviti chuckled...

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This has been an ugly year for Italy. The first wave of the coronavirus took the country by surprise and killed tens of thousands. The second wave somehow took the government by surprise and has killed thousands more. And Italians, desperate for the new vaccine, have struggled to get their hands on simple flu shots or to understand if they will hav...

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Almost 10 months after the first Italian patient tested positive for the new coronavirus, Italy on Sunday vaccinated the first residents against COVID-19. Three health workers at the Rome Spallanzani hospital were inoculated shortly before 0700 GMT with the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, a statement by the commissioner for the epidemic D...

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Pina and Rudy came from Calabria, the toe of the Italian boot. On Lodi Street in Hackensack, they recreated the land they left behind in microcosm. Maria (Pina) Oliveri and Rudolfo (Rudy) Siclari had met as godparents at a baptism. They married in 1957, a peak year for post-war Italian migration, when some 39,000 Calabrians left that province. Shor...

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The agri-food sector has shown greater resilience in international trade than other sectors, more affected by the restrictions and the consequent economic crisis. The 2019 Report on the foreign trade of agri-food products has been published, created by Crea Politiche and Bioeconomy. Now in its 28th edition, this year is enriched by an in-depth anal...

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A nurse at Rome's Spallanzani hospital, a specialist centre for infectious diseases, will become the first person in Italy to receive the Pfizer covid-19 vaccine. The female nurse will be among the five members of staff at the Spallanzani, including two doctors, a healthcare social worker and a researcher, to get the vaccine when the nationwide vac...

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