More than a thousand people carrying red flags and banners gathered in Turin for the traditional May demonstrations, Italian news agency ANSA reported. Several processions moved through the streets and gathered in a square by Town Hall. One of the biggest banners read: “Health crisis, social crisis, ecological crisis, to …
Read More »Italy, France and other EU states to restart AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine use after EU regulator’s blood clot review
“The government’s priority remains to vaccinate as many people as possible as quickly as possible,” Draghi said in a statement, after the European Medicines Agency (EMA) found no overall risk of blood clotting linked to the jab. The French prime minister and the health ministers of Latvia, Lithuania and Cyprus …
Read More »Sputnik V deal signed: Italy to become first EU country to produce Russian Covid-19 vaccine
The deal was signed between the Russia Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which bankrolls the production and distribution of Sputnik V, and Italy’s Adienne Srl company, the Italian-Russian Chamber of Commerce (CCIR), which facilitated the negotiations, said in a statement on Monday. Adienne Srl is located in the northern Italian province …
Read More »Ban vaccine export? We can do the same, French minister says, after Italy stopped AstraZeneca shipment to Australia
“I understand Italy,” French Health Minister Olivier Veran told BFM on Friday, when asked about the Italian export ban. “We could do the same.” Veran also said that Paris supports Brussels’ approach to vaccination campaigns in the EU. Brussels mandated this year that vaccine manufacturers must seek authorization from member …
Read More »‘So sorry’: Italy rugby ace Negri apologizes after controversial ‘crocodile roll’ causes horror injury to England’s Willis (VIDEO)
Willis faces an extended period on the sidelines after the encounter with Italian lock Negri in the second half of England’s 41-18 win in London in week two of the annual Six Nations tournament, after his knee was contorted into an eye-watering position as a result of Negri applying the …
Read More »Italy ‘eagerly waiting’ for EU to register Sputnik V vaccine, head of group promoting Russian-Italian ties tells RT
“We’re eagerly waiting for [the European Medicines Agency] to register [the Russian vaccine against the coronavirus],” Fallico said on Wednesday. Moscow lodged its application with the EU watchdog in late January. Earlier, Undersecretary of Italy’s Health Ministry Sandra Zampa confirmed that the country will use Sputnik V in its vaccination …
Read More »Italy’s Giuseppe Conte steps down as PM but hopes to return to power with new coalition govt
The move has been described as Conte’s best shot at remaining in power, after a small party led by former PM Matteo Renzi, Italia Viva, pulled out of the ruling coalition, costing the government its absolute majority in the Senate. Italia Viva’s exit from the coalition triggered a political crisis …
Read More »Covid mutation behind UK travel bans FOUND IN ITALY, health ministry says
The very same new coronavirus strain behind the current scare in Europe has been isolated in a laboratory at Celio Military Hospital in Rome. It was obtained from a person that had previously tested positive for Covid-19, the nation’s health ministry confirmed. “The Celio Scientific Department … sequenced a genome …
Read More »‘Two guests per home’: Italy shuts businesses & limits family visits as entire country labeled ‘red zone’ for Christmas
All of Italy will be designated a “red zone” – the highest risk level on its color-coded Covid-19 scale – by the new order, issued by Conte on Friday after marathon negotiations within the country’s governing coalition. “Among our experts there is strong concern that in the period around Christmas …
Read More »WATCH: Italy’s Etna eruption launches flaming debris in the air & creates LAVA FOUNTAINS
The 3,329-meter (10,922-foot) volcano, Europe’s largest and considered to be the world’s second-most active after Hawaii’s Mount Kilauea, erupted at 9:20pm local time Sunday following a magnitude-2.7 earthquake. The quake was among 17 recorded in the area in the past 24 hours. The initial intensity of blast increased from medium …
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