Italy is calling in its military to help enforce the lockdown in the nation’s heavily coronavirus-stricken northern region of Lombardy, as people have been ignoring the government’s quarantine rules while the country’s death toll and confirmed cases of the virus continue to surge.
Italy has hit its highest daily coronavirus death toll yet, as 627 people have died in the last 24 hours alone, causing the nation’s overall death toll to exceed 4,000 as of Friday.
A few countries were still reporting zero infections from the Wuhan coronavirus this week – and some of those reports are viewed with extreme skepticism by outsiders – but at this point, the disease has reached most of the world’s large nations.
ROME (AP) — Outbreaks of the coronavirus have stricken two convents in the Rome area.
The death toll of Catholic clergy in Italy from COVID-19 has now reached at least 13, as three more priests died this week in less than 72 hours.
A 57-year-old Italian doctor working without gloves due to a shortage at his hospital has died of the coronavirus.
BERGAMO, Italy (AP) — The priest gave a final benediction. There were no flowers, no embraces. Francesca Steffanoni and her mother hurried away from Bergamo’s main cemetery, their furtive farewell lasting no more than 5 minutes.
Deaths from COVID-19 in Italy surpassed the reported death toll in China Thursday, hitting a figure of 3,405 as compared with China’s 3,130.
With 3,405 deaths–including 427 in the last 24 hours alone–Italy has surpassed the Chinese communist regime’s officially reported coronavirus death toll.
An Italian man with coronavirus is facing twelve years in prison after he infected multiple doctors and nurses with the Chinese virus.
An Italian study revealed that most of the patients who have died from the coronavirus previously had some type of illness or pre-existing condition.
U2 frontman Bono took to social media to perform a new song that he said was inspired by the Italians, who have been singing from their balconies while quarantined inside their homes due to the coronavirus outbreak gripping the entire country.
Engineer Christian Fracassi saved at least ten lives in a Brescia, Italy, hospital by 3D-printing a vital respirator part. Now the manufacturer of that part is reportedly threatening to sue.
Italy had its highest daily coronavirus death toll yet, as 475 people have died in the last 24 hours, the total approaching the 3,000 mark.
An Italian governor is warning citizens to “stay home” because soon hospitals “will no longer be able to help those who get sick”.
Quarantined Italians have recorded messages to tyheir past selves to warn their past selves against not taking coronavirus seriously.
The Chinese government newspaper Global Times proclaimed the coronavirus potentially “the U.S. and China’s Chernobyl” in a column Wednesday accusing the world of “stigmatizing China” for lying about the origin and severity of the Wuhan outbreak, leading it to become a global pandemic.
Italian health officials announced Tuesday evening that a modest drop in new cases of the coronavirus is cause for cautious hope that the countrywide lockdown may be having an effect.
Both the French and Italian governments are considering measures to stem the economic effects of the coronavirus outbreak, including possible nationalisation of major airlines.
Italy is now the coronavirus epicentre. Pity the poor fools who were seduced into giving out hugs to signal their virtue.
In the last 24 hours, 345 more people have died in Italy from the Chinese coronavirus, which brings the nation’s death toll to 2,503 on Tuesday, up from 2,158 on Monday — an increase of 16 percent in one day.
A study published last week by the University of Southampton’s WorldPop population mapping group suggested that found China could have prevented 95 percent of the coronavirus infections running wild across the world if the government had listened to the whistleblowing doctors of Wuhan instead of silencing and punishing them for daring to speak out.
Newt Gingrich, whose wife Callista is the U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Tuesday live from Rome that the coronavirus crisis will force major societal changes as the world confronts it and in its aftermath.
Italy’s Interior Ministry issued a warning Tuesday, promising higher fines and harsher penalties for those found outside their homes with insufficient reason.
The Chinese Communist Party announced a new mission of “medical experts” to Italy on Tuesday as reports continue to surface that residents in Wuhan, the city where the pandemic originated, are struggling to receive treatment at hospitals.
Thousands of foreign nationals have been caught attempting to cross into the United States from Canada before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he would close the nation’s borders to foreign travelers.
Geopolitical experts speaking to the anti-communist publication Epoch Times in an article published Sunday indicated that political and economic ties to China hurt Italy, South Korea, and Iran in attempts to contain the Chinese coronavirus.
In the last 24 hours, 349 people have died in Italy from the Chinese coronavirus, bringing the nation’s death toll to 2,158 on Monday, from 1,809 a day earlier.
An Italian mayor says that his city’s crematory is now “unable to dispose of all the work it has to do,” as there have been so many bodies of those who have died due to the coronavirus.
Singers Katy Perry, Madonna, and Cheryl all appear to have been tricked, sharing doctored videos on social media of Italians on coronavirus lockdown in their homes singing popular songs from their windows.
“It might be US army [sic] who brought the epidemic to Wuhan,” tweeted a Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson last week. He then followed up by tweeting a report from a conspiracy website, stating that it provided “further evidence that the virus originated in the US.”
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Monday discussed his recent op-ed calling on action to be taken to fight the coronavirus after seeing the pandemic hit Italy.
The coronavirus continues to spread rapidly in Italy despite a near-total lockdown on residents’ movements and interaction.
The first sailor assigned to a U.S. warship has tested “presumptive positive” for the coronavirus, but authorities said Sunday the result needed to be confirmed by health specialists.
The walls of the Old City of Jerusalem were lit with the colors of the Italian flag Sunday evening in a show of solidarity with the European nation, which just announced that another 370 had died in the last 24 hours from the coronavirus.
In the last 24 hours, 368 people have died in Italy from the coronavirus, bringing the nation’s death toll to 1,809 from 1,441 a day earlier — a 25 percent increase and the highest daily death toll Italy has seen yet.
A video posted to social media on Saturday shows a man flipping through an Italian newspaper to show the obituaries of Italians who have died from the coronavirus in just one city in northern Italy.
Pop star Katy Perry shared video over the weekend of Italians on lockdown due to the coronavirus singing her hit song “Roar” from their homes, while the streets of their cities remain barren. These beautiful moments, many of which are
(AFP) — Sara Platto’s mother in Italy called her “crazy” for staying in Wuhan even as the virus-hit city was quarantined in January. Now she’s offering advice to people back home on how to cope.
In the last 24 hours, 250 people have died in Italy due to the coronavirus, setting a record for the highest death toll the nation has seen in one day from the virus.
