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Italy protesters, police clash over virus curbs as countries battle case surges
Governments are now struggling to balance new restrictions against the need to revive economies already battered by earlier draconian lockdowns after the virus...
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Ronaldo 'violated' COVID-19 protocol, says Italy's sports minister
Ronaldo left the Portuguese team camp near Lisbon on Wednesday to fly back to Northern Italy on his private jet.
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Train leaves Italian station without driver
The train with one passenger on board travelled for about seven kilometres north of Milan without either its driver or conductor, the railway said.
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Italian region imposes 1,000-euro fines for not wearing masks
The three businesses, which include a bar and a hairdresser, were hit with 1,000-euro fines after police found they had not respected an edict imposed on Friday that requires people to wear masks in enclosed spaces.
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Virus already in Italy by December, waste water study finds
Researchers discovered genetic traces of Sars-CoV-2 - as the virus is officially known - in samples of waste water collected in Milan and Turin at the end of last year, and Bologna in January, the ISS institute said in a statement seen by AFP on Friday.
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Football returns, beaches reopen as Europe eases lockdown
The reopenings are a major sign of returning normality for countries hit hard by the pandemic, which has killed more than 307,000 people, infected over 4.5 million, wrought vast economic havoc and brought life to a halt.
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Italy to reopen borders for tourists in early June
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte enforced an economically crippling shutdown in early March to counter a pandemic that has so far killed more than 31,500 people in Italy.
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Italy launches blood tests to investigate who has had COVID-19
Italy has had more than 222,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and over 31,000 deaths since its outbreak came to light on 21 February. Most of them have been in its northern regions, while the south has escaped largely unscathed.
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COVID-19 and what the globe looks like now
Students return to school in Wuhan, the United Kingdom takes over as Europe's coronavirus epicentre and New York subway stations shut down for the first time in over a century. #Covid19 #NewYork #CoronavirusPandemice
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Italy begins to emerge from world's longest nationwide lockdown
Four million people -- an estimated 72% of them men -- will return to their construction sites and factories as the economically and emotionally shattered country tries to get back to work.
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UK pushes back against COVID-19 death toll comparison with Italy
Analysis by media including Sky News and the 'Financial Times' suggests those figures are worse than in other European countries
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Confusion as Italy prepares to ease lockdown
Italy's 60 million inhabitants will be able to move more freely within their own regions, visiting relatives, going to the re-opened parks with their children and going cycling or running further from home.
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US virus cases hit a million as Germans wear masks in shops
Excitement over a move towards normality in many places was tempered by fear of new outbreaks and growing evidence of the economic devastation wreaked by the pandemic.
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Italy cheers as virus cases level off
Italy's official death toll still rose by another 575 fatalities Friday to 22,745; second-most after the United States.
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Italy eyes lockdown extension to 3 May
Italy's death toll from the novel coronavirus has officially reached 18,279 since the end of February, the highest in the world.
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A month into COVID-19 lockdown, Serie A torn over scrapping or return to action
Endless dates have been proposed from May, through to September and October, all depending "on when health conditions allow".
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Virus tide turns in Europe as US girds for 'Pearl Harbor' moment
The virus has infected virtually every corner of the planet, confining nearly half of humanity to their homes and turning life upside down for billions on a deadly march that has claimed nearly 70,000 victims.
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Athletes banned from group training as Italy extends lockdown
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said in a televised address to the nation on Wednesday that the lockdown would be extended and would now also include training sessions.
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Italy's 'very long' lockdown to only end gradually
The message from ministers and health officials came as Italy's world-topping toll rose by 756, well below Friday's record of 969, and the rate of coronavirus infections slowed to under 6% for the first time.
