HOW DO YOU GET AN ITALIAN COVID VACCINATION CERTIFICATE With talk of a certificato verde or ‘green pass’ for travel and events in Italy, you may be expecting to receive something resembling a passport after you’ve had your jabs (and a green one at that).. But, confusingly, for the moment at least what’s being called a green pass is in fact just a regular vaccination certificate – or a negative coronavirus test result, or a statement from

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ITALY’S TRAVEL ‘GREEN PASS’ TO BE VALID FROM FIRST COVID The certificazione verde (“green pass”) that allows travellers to enter Italy without quarantining will be issued from the first jab, the final text of Italy’s latest Covid-19 decree states.. According to the decree, signed by President Sergio Mattarella on Tuesday night and effective immediately, the green pass will be valid from 15 days after you receive the first injection and until CAN AMERICANS TRAVEL TO ITALY FOR TOURISM THIS SUMMER Recent changes to the travel rules have left many people unsure if or when they can visit Italy for a vacation this summer. Here’s the information available so far. For more than a year, vacations to Italy were impossible as most travel from the US – and many other countries outside Europe SAN MARINO OFFERS TOURISTS SPUTNIK VACCINE FOR €50 The fee, equivalent to $61, covers both doses of the vaccine, Health Minister Roberto Ciavatta told a press conference. The jab will be made available to anyone who books a hotel for at least three nights and returns within three or four weeks for the second injection. The scheme, which launches EU AGREES LIST OF ACCEPTED COVID RAPID ANTIGEN TESTS AND The health security committee on Thursday published a list of 16 rapid antigen tests that it said would be mutually recognized in all member states. “Member States agree that Covid-19 test results should be made available in the national language(s) of the country where the test was taken, as well as English,” the committee also said. COVID-19 VACCINATIONS NOW OPEN TO OVER-50S IN MOST REGIONS Over-50s – anyone born in or before 1971 – were due to become able to book a jab in several more Italian regions from Monday May 10th, including Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lombardy, Puglia and Veneto. 'ZITTI E BUONI': THE ITALIAN VOCAB YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND Zitti e buoni: the lyrics in English. Let’s start with the title: Zitti e buoni means “quiet and good”, but in the context of the song the words are more like a command – “shut up and behave”. The next thing to know is that there are actually two sets of lyrics to the song – a clean version and one that’s slightly more

risqué.

ITALY'S 'BABY BONUSES': WHAT PAYMENTS ARE AVAILABLE AND Italy’s precarious economy and the added impact of the pandemic saw the birth rate continue to drop last year, prompting concerns for the nation’s financial future. REFUGEES PROTEST AGAINST 'MONOTONOUS' ITALIAN FOOD For two days, a group of about 40 asylum-seekers staying at a refugee centre in the Veneto province of Belluno refused to eat the “pasta with tomato sauce, bread and eggs” meals they were given and called to be fed food from their own countries, Libero Quotidiano reported. To reinforce their point, they blocked a street with a wooden bench, put their lunch on the ground along with bags of HOW DO YOU GET AN ITALIAN COVID VACCINATION CERTIFICATE With talk of a certificato verde or ‘green pass’ for travel and events in Italy, you may be expecting to receive something resembling a passport after you’ve had your jabs (and a green one at that).. But, confusingly, for the moment at least what’s being called a green pass is in fact just a regular vaccination certificate – or a negative coronavirus test result, or a statement from

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ITALY’S TRAVEL ‘GREEN PASS’ TO BE VALID FROM FIRST COVID The certificazione verde (“green pass”) that allows travellers to enter Italy without quarantining will be issued from the first jab, the final text of Italy’s latest Covid-19 decree states.. According to the decree, signed by President Sergio Mattarella on Tuesday night and effective immediately, the green pass will be valid from 15 days after you receive the first injection and until CAN AMERICANS TRAVEL TO ITALY FOR TOURISM THIS SUMMER Recent changes to the travel rules have left many people unsure if or when they can visit Italy for a vacation this summer. Here’s the information available so far. For more than a year, vacations to Italy were impossible as most travel from the US – and many other countries outside Europe SAN MARINO OFFERS TOURISTS SPUTNIK VACCINE FOR €50 The fee, equivalent to $61, covers both doses of the vaccine, Health Minister Roberto Ciavatta told a press conference. The jab will be made available to anyone who books a hotel for at least three nights and returns within three or four weeks for the second injection. The scheme, which launches COVID-19 VACCINATIONS NOW OPEN TO OVER-50S IN MOST REGIONS Over-50s – anyone born in or before 1971 – were due to become able to book a jab in several more Italian regions from Monday May 10th, including Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lombardy, Puglia and Veneto. EU AGREES LIST OF ACCEPTED COVID RAPID ANTIGEN TESTS AND The health security committee on Thursday published a list of 16 rapid antigen tests that it said would be mutually recognized in all member states. “Member States agree that Covid-19 test results should be made available in the national language(s) of the country where the test was taken, as well as English,” the committee also said. 'ZITTI E BUONI': THE ITALIAN VOCAB YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND Zitti e buoni: the lyrics in English. Let’s start with the title: Zitti e buoni means “quiet and good”, but in the context of the song the words are more like a command – “shut up and behave”. The next thing to know is that there are actually two sets of lyrics to the song – a clean version and one that’s slightly more

risqué.

ITALY'S 'BABY BONUSES': WHAT PAYMENTS ARE AVAILABLE AND Italy’s precarious economy and the added impact of the pandemic saw the birth rate continue to drop last year, prompting concerns for the nation’s financial future. REFUGEES PROTEST AGAINST 'MONOTONOUS' ITALIAN FOOD For two days, a group of about 40 asylum-seekers staying at a refugee centre in the Veneto province of Belluno refused to eat the “pasta with tomato sauce, bread and eggs” meals they were given and called to be fed food from their own countries, Libero Quotidiano reported. To reinforce their point, they blocked a street with a wooden bench, put their lunch on the ground along with bags of ITALY LIMITS ASTRAZENECA VACCINATION TO OVER-60S 7 hours ago · Italy said Saturday it would restrict the AstraZeneca vaccine to the over-60s, with younger people who have already received one dose to complete the cycle with an mRNA jab. The change follows an improvement in coronavirus infection rates in Italy, EXPLAINED: WHAT ARE THE COVID-19 RULES ON ITALY'S BEACHES 1 day ago · Travel in Italy has restarted and the country has opened up to some international tourists as coronavirus restrictions ease across the nation.. The health data is improving with Italy recording its lowest weekly rates of Covid-19 infections since October ITALY'S MORTALITY RATE IN 2020 'HIGHEST RECORDED SINCE 1 day ago · “In 2020, total deaths from all causes were the highest ever recorded in our country since the Second World War,” national statistics agency Istat stated in a new report.. In the sixth report on the impact of Covid-19, produced jointly by Istat and the Higher Institute of Health (ISS), Italy’s resident population recorded 746,146 deaths in 2020 and from January-April 2021 – making

the

Q&A: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IF YOU’RE TRAVELLING TO ITALY 1 day ago · Some 13.5 million people, or a quarter of the Italian population over the age of 12, have been fully vaccinated. Around 26.4 million have received one dose of the vaccine, according to government figures.. Despite concern across Europe about the relatively low vaccination rate as well as the spread of the Delta variant, which originated in India, Italian health authorities have indicated that ITALY PUTS SIX MORE REGIONS IN THE 'WHITE ZONE' AS 1 day ago · Six more of Italy's regions and autonomous provinces will be allowed to drop most remaining health measures from Monday as the latest data showed infection rates remain low nationwide. The regions of Emilia Romagna, Lombardy, Lazio, Piedmont and Puglia, and

the

UPDATE: ITALY 'STRONGLY RECOMMENDS' ASTRAZENECA COVID 1 day ago · AstraZeneca remains approved for adults of all ages in Italy, but the new advice strengthens a previous Health Ministry recommendation for “preferential use of AstraZeneca on people over the age of 60” due to a small number of cases worldwide of unusual blood clots in younger people who had recently received the vaccine. Despite the previous advice to use the vaccine on over-60s, a number HOW TO TRY TO GET A COVID-19 VACCINE WITHOUT A HEALTH CARD Italy has promised to offer Covid-19 vaccines to anyone who wants them, but people outside the public healthcare system continue to have difficulty making an appointment. With different regional systems in place, here's what to do if you're struggling to book a shot in your part of the country. IS ITALY REALLY GOING TO OFFER VACCINES TO TOURISTS THIS 1 day ago · As Italy’s coronavirus vaccination campaign continues to make progress, Italian media reports that the country plans on giving second doses to tourists this summer. But is that really going to happen - and who would it apply to? Here's a closer look. Some half WHAT DOES THE US'S NEW RISK CLASSIFICATION FOR ITALY MEAN The decision by the US State Department and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention means that Ital yis no longer in the highest risk classification for travel. However, according to the State Department’s advice for level 3 “reconsider travel”, “US nationals should avoid travel due to serious risks to safety and

security”.

TEN THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE MOVING TO ITALY 1. Be legal. This is so important, especially if you are a non-EU citizen. After the 90 days allowed by the visa waiver programme or tourist visa, if you stay in Italy without the proper documents you are illegal – regardless of your nationality. ITALY'S NEWS IN ENGLISH

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An elderly cancer patient became the third person known to be infected with the coronavirus to die in Italy, health officials said on Sunday, as the number of people contracting the virus continued to mount. The death of the woman in a hospital in the small city of Crema in Lombardy, the centre of Italy's coronavirus scare, followed that of a 77-year-old woman on Saturday and a 78-year-old man on Friday, the first European victim of coronavirus. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte urged people "not to give in to panic and follow the advice of health authorities". "We should not be afraid because of the rising numbers," he told public radio station Rai Uno, adding in another interview that cases were being discovered "because we are carrying out thousands of

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EXPLAINED: HOW ITALY IS HANDLING THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK The head of Italy's civil protection department, Angelo Borrelli, told a news conference that 152 people had now tested positive for the virus in the country, including the three deceased. The cancer patient had been hospitalised for a few days, said Lombardy's health chief, Giulio Gallera. "She'd been tested and they already knew she had the coronavirus," Gallera said, adding that it was too early to know whether the virus was the actual cause of death. The deaths, and steadily rising number of cases of infected people, have prompted a series of security measures to try to check the spread

of the contagion.

Eleven towns -- 10 in Lombardy and one in neighbouring Veneto -- are under lockdown, with some 50,000 residents prohibited from leaving. _Police checkpoints in Codogna, Lombardy. Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP_ Regional authorities have ordered gathering spots, such as bars, restaurants and discos to close. Schools throughout the affected areas are to remain closed. An Austrian train from Venice bound for Munich was stopped on Sunday on the Italian side of the Brenner Pass border crossing with Austria because of two possible cases, the Austrian interior ministry said. It later announced that the passengers had tested negative and train

services resumed.

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The spread of the virus has disrupted high-profile events including Milan Fashion Week and the Venice Carnival while Serie A football matches were postponed. Operas have also had to be cancelled at Milan's famed La Scala. Most of the cases in Italy are in Lombardy, a prosperous region in the country's north, and can be traced back to a 38-year-old man whom authorities have called "patient one". The man, who is intensive care, dined last month with another man who had visited China in January. He exhibited flu-like symptoms at the time of the dinner, but has since tested negative for the virus, media

reports said.

Health officials are still puzzled over certain cases with no obvious links with infected persons. "The rapid increase in reported cases in Italy over the past two days is of concern," World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic said on Sunday. "What is also worrying is that not all reported cases seem to have clear epidemiological links, such as travel history to China or contact with a confirmed case," he added. Experts from WHO and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control plan to arrive in Italy on Tuesday, he said. Conte's government moved on Saturday to set up checkpoints in the region affected to ensure that nobody leaves the contaminated zone without special permission. Sunday saw police checking all vehicles travelling in and out of the area along Codogno's main highway. One police officer told AFP that "we're going to quickly enforce a total blockade" and that those who had made it into the area in recent days would be unable to leave. Conte has said that residents could face weeks of lockdown, enough time for any potential infection to incubate. coronavirus italy sickness

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