Jon Bon Jovi has left a venue in Miami Beach where he was scheduled to perform with his band after testing positive for COVID-19, 7News has learned. The prolific rocker was set to perform with his band at the Loews South Beach on Collins Avenue and 16th Street on Saturday evening. Prior to the start of the concert, a man took the microphone and ann...

When Dr. Anne Prisco first arrived as the new president of Holy Family University in Philadelphia on July 12, 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic looked to finally be on the downward swing after more than a year of holding the world captive. There was a robust vaccination campaign playing out, and people long holed up in their houses were beginning to redi...

Some of Italy’s biggest ski resorts opened for the new season on Wednesday, with Covid-19 green passes required when using ski lifts, social distancing measures in place at entrances and online booking required in some areas. While Italy’s government did not specify that the green pass would be required on slopes or to take ski lifts this winter, t...

Italy's vaccination campaign is moving faster than the EU average, the Italian premier Mario Draghi said in the senate on Wednesday morning. Speaking ahead of the European Council summit on 20-21 October, Draghi said that as of today 86 per cent of the Italian population over the age of 12 has had at least one dose of the covid vaccine while 81 per...

Italy has always been the country we think of first when Dottie and I consider travel to Europe. Getting here this time was a bit more complicated than before. Although each EU country has its own rules, most are similar to those set by the Italians. First: it takes a bit more preparation. In addition to our passports, we needed our COVID-19 vaccin...

The mandatory Green Pass arrives also on the Neapolitan crib: the master craftsman Marco Ferrigno has put the vaccine passport in the hands of the travelers par excellence, the three Wise Men. "We decided to introduce an important novelty: - says Ferrigno - The Three Kings with the Green Pass! For us it is not only a way to make indelible a particu...

The number of first jabs administered in Italy has risen slightly for the first time in weeks, government data showed on Friday, ahead of the expansion of the 'green pass' requirement to workplaces. About 400,000 first jabs have been administered since last week, according to data presented by Italy’s coronavirus emergency commissioner on Friday. T...

The US has said that it will reopen its borders to fully vaccinated travellers from 33 countries on 8 November. Under new rules announced by the White House, vaccinated people who have had a negative test in the 72 hours before travelling will be allowed to enter. The move marks the end of the tough restrictions that have been imposed on travellers...

The past year and a half changed our lives in more ways than one and now that — let us hope — we are on the way back to some sort of normality, it’s perhaps the right moment to look back and assess a couple of things, including how Italy is planning to move forward. Many commented that the post-Covid world won’t be the same as the one before, and t...

Italy is to give a third dose of the covid-19 vaccine, or 'booster' shot, to the over-60s and people who are frail, the health ministry announced on Friday night. The decision was taken after the green light from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) which said that the booster could be given to people aged over 60 and anyone considered frail, regard...