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With more than 21,000 victims, Italy has the second-highest coronavirus death toll in the world. The crisis has prompted the Italian government to adopt strict measures to prevent further spread of the virus—including freezing the entire Italian school system. As a result, 8.4 million students have been forced to switch to online learning for an in...

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Italy plans to use a smartphone app developed by tech start-up Bending Spoons to track people who test positive for the new coronavirus as part of efforts to lift its nationwide lockdown. The original epicentre of the virus outbreak in Europe, Italy has the world's highest coronavirus death toll with more than 22,000 fatalities, second only to the...

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A comic book artist in coronavirus-ravaged Italy has crafted a set of drawings paying homage to the real-life female heroes of the pandemic. Milo Manara, 74, is spending his time in self-isolation in the hard-hit Veneto region drawing women on the front-lines of the fight against the virus, including medical professionals, police officers and sanit...

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City Pizza Italian Cuisine, known for its “your friendly neighborhood restaurant” approach to service, has continued to provide services during these challenging times and adapt to curbside options for carry-out and delivery in an effort to keep customers and staff safe during the COVID-19 outbreak. For almost 20 years, the West Palm Beach-based ea...

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Last month, Joe Satriani decided to postpone his European tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “I was pretty adamant about getting the ball rolling early,” he tells Rolling Stone from his home in San Francisco. “Because it was obvious. Some folks, maybe they were just frightened and didn’t want to see the reality that’s upon us right now.” Amid the c...

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With Cannes and Venice both up in the air due to the coronavirus pandemic, Italy’s film promotion org. Filmitalia has teamed up with festival streaming platform Festival Scope Pro to launch its annual Italian Screenings market online in July. Filmitalia, a unit of Italian national film entity Luce-Cinecittà, “is the first of Europe’s roughly 30 fil...

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It’s hard to sate wanderlust when quarantined at home, but these fascinating online courses will transport you virtually to Italy, providing rich insights into the places, art work and performances you’ve seen, or will see when travel resumes. All courses below are in English. The Changing Landscape of Ancient Rome. Archaeology and History of the P...

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Italy's beaches might look very different this summer, as the travel industry tries to come up with ways to ensure Italians can still go to the coast despite the coronavirus outbreak. Millions head to Italian beaches every summer, and over a month into Italy's Covid-19 lockdown more and more people are wondering whether they'll be able to do the sa...

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You can’t go to Riviera Foods without getting a Diavolo ($6.50). That’s just the food rules, I don’t make them. The sandwich (formerly known as the Will Special, named after the late regular who created it) takes a 9-inch length of crisp-crusted French bread, then fills it with fatty layers of spicy soppressata, hot capocollo, salty prosciutto, cur...

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Charles “Chad” Vilotti and James Liscio, partners at the 400-worker Liscio’s Italian Bakery Inc. in Glassboro, are among the first Philadelphia-area firms to collect cash from a “forgivable” coronavirus economic relief loan through the Small Business Administration. “We like to say that ‘banks are these places that give you umbrellas when it...

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