BY enza76
Italy’s center and south have not been touched by the Covid-19 pandemic. It may seem strange, given all the fanfare in the media about the pandemic, but, if we look at the graphs, we can see that the number of deaths has gone up only in the north of Italy, not in the center and […]
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Milva, one of the greatest Italian singers of the 1960s and ’70s, with a career spanning over 50 years, has died on April 23 at the age of 81. On March 26 she had said on Facebook that she had been vaccinated against Covid-19. The singer had been nicknamed “Milva the Redhead” for the color […]
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By Enza Ferreri In Sanremo, charming seaside resort on the Western part of the Italian Riviera, near the border with France, annually at this time of the year the “Festival della Canzone Italiana”, Festival of the Italian Song Competition, has been held for several decades, precisely since 1951, initially at Sanremo’s Casino and then at […]
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In the previous post Italian Doctor: in Covid I Acted as Usual, I Had No Death or ICU Hospitalization we reported, translated from Italian, the first part of an interview that an Italian doctor, Dr. Maria Grazia Dondini, general practitioner in Monterenzio, in the province of Bologna, gave to the website La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana […]
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The 4th October is St Francis of Assisi Feast Day. St Francis hailed from the beautiful little town of Assisi, in Umbria, the region called “the green heart of Italy” for its abundant vegetation and its central position in the country. It is the only region of peninsular Italy which is landlocked. In Assisi and […]
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Italy started easing its coronavirus lockdown restrictions from 5 May. The previous day, 4 May, the Imperial College London released a study which made predictions on the effects in Italy of the new measures introduced. (All references are at the end.) The predictions considered two hypothetical main scenarios, differing in the increase in mobility of […]
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Of Italy’s 21 regions (Italy has actually 20 regions, but for Covid-19 computations Trentino Alto-Adige has been split into two), at the moment 9 have zero new contagions, in 11 the new contagions are from 1 to 19, and the only exception is Lombardy with 237 new positive cases. No new death in 12 regions. […]
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Colonel Luca Parmitano, Italian Air Force officer with 25 years of service and 6 space missions behind him, engineer and astronaut of the European Astronaut Corps for the European Space Agency (ESA) since 2009, said he was aware of the pandemic danger posed by the new coronavirus as early as November. Parmitano, who is the […]
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I tend to accept restrictions if they are justifiably motivated by serious health dangers. I must admit, though, that an episode raised my alarm about the motivations of our political leaders when in Lombardy, in Italy, police tried to interrupt a Mass which was attended by 15 people in a large church where they could […]
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It’s so fashionable and radical-chic to blame man, what he creates and what he produces for any environmental disaster, real or imagined, these days. Pollution and anthropogenic climate change spring to mind. During the coronavirus lockdown, which in Italy has strongly reduced car traffic in cities and country, these theories of how our air is […]
