The data from the monitoring conducted by the Italian Medicines Agency on oral antiviral medicines for the treatment of COVID-19 during the pandemic were analyzed in a study published on 13 July 2023 in the scientific journal The Lancet Regional Health - Europe. The publication was received with great interest by the scientific community both for […]
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"Although the evolution of the pandemic is currently unpredictable, our country must prepare to face a winter in which we could observe an increased welfare impact attributable to various acute respiratory diseases, first of all influenza, and to the possible circulation of new variants of SARS-CoV-2, also determined by individual behaviors and immune status [...]
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The “Interim strategic indications for preparedness and readiness for the mitigation of SARS-CoV-2 infections in the school environment (school year 2022-2023) were published yesterday. The document, which concerns the schools of the first and second cycle of education, was developed by Iss, with the ministries of Health and [...]
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Tomorrow ends the health emergency that lasted two years from the proclamation of the Conte government. In force since April 1st, many changes that eliminate the green pass and the super green pass in different situations. From May 31st, the green pass institution will definitively terminate its restrictive validity, with one exception: until December XNUMXst the obligation to [...] remains
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Lockdown in China for Covid-19. Megacities producing high-tech products closed
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The Italian Medicines Agency has published the annual report on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines. The data collected and analyzed concern the reports of suspected adverse reaction registered in the National Pharmacovigilance Network (RNF) in the vaccination campaign year from 27 December 2020 to 26 December 2021 for the four vaccines in use in the vaccination campaign in [...]
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The Council of Ministers on Wednesday 2 February gave the green light to the new measures for the management of positive cases in the education, school and training system. The approved standards come into force with the publication in the Official Gazette. Below is a summary of the measures. Kindergarten - Early childhood education services. As far as […]
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The child, positive for the virus and in danger of life from serious respiratory problems, traveled inside an ambulance loaded directly on board the aircraft of the 46th Air Brigade A C-130J of the 'Air Force with a two-year-old girl on board, positive for Covid [...]
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Thus the Undersecretary of Health Pierpaolo Sileri: “Omicron will reach everyone, there is no escape. There is no doubt that by the end of 2022, unless another variant arrives, almost the entire population will have encountered this variant. Those who are vaccinated will be more protected and will probably have a lighter form ". Faced with the strong concern of [...]
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(by Emanuela Ricci) The Minister of Education Patrizio Bianchi reiterates that the decision taken by the Campania Region is in explicit contrast with the law currently in force in Italy, which prohibits the Regions and mayors from intervening except in the red zone and in extreme cases very specific. Now it will be up to the Administrative Court to decide when interested [...]
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Vaccine obligation for over 50s, who will be able to go to work only if immunized or cured from Covid, this is the provision at the end of the cdm. The majority, however, are divided on the introduction of the obligation of the super green pass to access services or enter shops, with the League that after having threatened to abstention must collect [...]
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There are 141.262 new infections from Covid in the last 24 hours. A figure that brings the number of people currently positive to the virus in Italy to over one million: 1.021.697. According to data from the Ministry of Health, the victims are 111, while yesterday there were 155. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the victims have been a total of 137.513. [...]
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The circular with updates on quarantine and isolation measures following the spread of the new Omicron variant has been published on the website of the Ministry of Health. No quarantine for asymptomatic subjects who have received the booster dose, or have completed the primary vaccination course in the previous 120 days, or have recovered from [...]
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The circulation of the SarsCoV2 virus in Italy is increasingly intense, with a rapid increase in cases for the tenth consecutive week. In this worsening situation, other 4 Regions - Lombardy, Piedmont, Lazio and Sicily - will pass in the yellow band from Monday and there is a new record of positives in Italy: there are 144.243 [...]
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The Omicron variant of the SarsCoV2 virus already records 45% of the cases identified (referring to the data of December 25, ed), as noted by the physicist Roberto Battiston. The Undersecretary to Health Sileri foresees that the cases can reach 100 thousand cases per day within the first 10 days of January. The data of the ministry [...]
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Rapid antigenic tests every day as an alternative to quarantine while Israel tests the validity of the fourth dose of vaccine (by Francesco Matera) The infectious disease specialist, Matteo Bassetti commented on the evolution of the Omicron variant: "With over 50 thousand cases per day, destined for become many more, we have to live coexistence with the virus in a different way. I'm [...]
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The state of emergency has been extended until March 31, 2022, so, with another decree presented yesterday in the Council of Ministers, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi wants to keep the country safe from the grip of the pandemic. The new Omicron variant, although less dangerous but more contagious, requires governments not to be able to lower [...]
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The umpteenth Dpcm has been approved, the super green pass is underway starting from 6 December until at least 15 January 2022. Extension of the vaccination obligation to some categories, this is the most salient news. A highly impactful way on a social level, the one decided by the Government, to prevent the fourth wave from blocking the country and therefore the economy [...]
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Two-speed Green Pass, a formula being studied by the government to avoid surprises at Christmas with a patchy lockdown. The green certificate could be linked only to vaccines or to the overcoming of the infection, not allowing access to restaurants, cinemas and stadiums to citizens in possession of a certificate following an antigen test. In the […]
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The Italian Medicines Agency has published the ninth Pharmacovigilance Report on COVID-19 vaccines. The data collected and analyzed concern the reports of suspected adverse reactions registered in the National Pharmacovigilance Network between 27 December 2020 and 26 September 2021 for the four vaccines in use in the current vaccination campaign. In the period […]
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In a draft of the decree prepared by the Minister of Public Administration, Renato Brunetta, indicates that "immediately", as of October 15, therefore, all public employees will return to work in presence with the activities at the counter and reception of users ( front office) and the sectors responsible for providing services to users (back office), [...]
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This week at the next council of ministers (Wednesday, to be confirmed) the government intends to extend the green pass to users of public services. So not only the obligation to public administration employees but also to users, as is the case for schools, where the use of the green card is also foreseen for parents [...]
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The Italian Medicines Agency has published the eighth Pharmacovigilance Report on COVID-19 Vaccines. The data collected and analyzed concern the reports of suspected adverse reactions registered in the National Pharmacovigilance Network between 27 December 2020 and 26 August 2021 for the four vaccines in use in the current vaccination campaign. In the period considered [...]
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There will be 15 million Italians who will vote between September and October for the administrative with the rules imposed by Covid. The Ansa reports the indications of the Interior Ministry and the Ministry of Health for conducting the vote in complete safety. The novelty is the obligation of the green pass for the members of the polling stations of the hospital constituencies [...]
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Full operation, even in the year marked by the health emergency, of the activity of the Employment Fund (FOC): between May 2020 and June 2021 there were over 3.200 applications for permanent recruitment / stabilization in the banking sector approved by the Management Committee of the FOC and financed by the Fund for about 29 million euros without any charge for the [...]
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Eni Foundation alongside children and adolescents to combat social and nutritional discomfort due to the health emergency. The Initiative, in collaboration with the Italian Society of Pediatrics (SIP), the Italian Relief Corps of the Order of Malta (CISOM), the Banco Alimentare Foundation and Caritas Ambrosiana With the spread of the health crisis linked to Covid-19, Eni Foundation has decided from […]
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Between February 2020, the month that preceded the advent of the pandemic crisis, and May 2021, the overall stock of bank loans granted to Italian companies to tackle the economic crisis increased by € 37,1 billion, although guaranteed loans implemented with the interventions approved by the second Conte government are [...]
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Bianchi: "In the field every action necessary for the return in presence" The Ministry of Education and the trade unions have signed the Memorandum of Understanding for the safe start of the school year 2021/2022 in compliance with the rules for containment of the spread of Covid-19. A technical note to schools will also follow which will refer, in particular, to the use of [...]
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As part of a complex investigation carried out by the Postal and Communications Police Service, in concert with the Milan and Bari Departments, with the coordination of the Public Prosecutors at the Courts of Rome, Milan and Bari minors, 4 subjects were identified, searched and investigated, including 2 minors, managers [...]
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In the world of work, Covid has mainly affected self-employed workers. Between February 2020, the month preceding the advent of the pandemic crisis, and June of this year, our country lost 470 thousand employees; of these, 378 thousand (equal to over 80 per cent of the total) are self-employed. As if to say that in these [...]
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AIFA has updated the methods of use of monoclonal antibodies against COVID-19 in relation to the new evidence from the literature that has recently become available. In particular, a positive opinion was given to the use of the sotrovimab antibody which demonstrated a favorable benefit / risk ratio also against the main circulating variants of SARS-CoV-2. Also for the approval of [...]
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The Italian Medicines Agency has published the seventh Pharmacovigilance Report on COVID-19 Vaccines. The data collected and analyzed concern the reports of suspected adverse reactions registered in the National Pharmacovigilance Network between 27 December 2020 and 26 July 2021 for the four vaccines in use in the current vaccination campaign. In the period […]
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Positive leap in Italy in the last 24 hours, they are 3.558 against 2.072 yesterday. Ten victims in one day. Meanwhile, the Delta variant runs and records +150 percent in France. Eighteen thousand new cases of coronavirus in France in the last 24 hours, a surge "never seen", according to the Minister of Health [...]
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Since last May there has not been such a black day for world stock exchanges. A day to forget, all the stock exchanges were affected by the setback of Wall Street which yesterday closed in sharp decline due to the effects, not exactly exciting, of the new wave of Covid-19 cases, mainly linked to the spread of [ ...]
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Capalbo: an initiative possible thanks to the collaboration and support of the Aidr Digital Health Observatory The robot capable of disinfecting hospital rooms using ultraviolet light alone is arriving at the Marche Nord Hospital. The tool, provided free of charge by the European Commission, will ensure a sterile environment in the ward reducing the risk of spread [...]
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Italy has become all white, even the Aosta Valley joins the other regions. There will no longer be the obligation to wear the mask outdoors if, however, at a safe distance. What is worrying is the Delta variant which has seen cases quadruple compared to last May. To launch an appeal, today, [...]
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Kim Jong Un, speaking yesterday at a plenary meeting of the ruling Workers' Party Central Committee to review progress on key craft policies and measures to solve economic problems, said the country's economy has improved this year, but called for measures to address the "tense" food situation caused by the pandemic [...]
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The Italian Medicines Agency has published the fifth Pharmacovigilance Report on COVID-19 Vaccines. The data collected and analyzed concern the reports of suspected adverse reactions registered in the National Pharmacovigilance Network between 27 December 2020 and 26 May 2021 for the four vaccines in use in the current vaccination campaign. In the period […]
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As part of the epidemiological emergency from Coronavirus, the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA), through a specific call, has promoted the funding of some studies to acquire new evidence on the efficacy of monoclonal antibodies in the treatment of patients affected by COVID- 19 in an early stage of illness, not hospitalized and whether or not they have risk factors that may aggravate [...]
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The Italian Medicines Agency has published the fourth Pharmacovigilance Report on COVID-19 vaccines. The data collected and analyzed concern the reports of suspected adverse reactions registered in the National Pharmacovigilance Network between 27 December 2020 and 26 April 2021 for the four vaccines in use in the current vaccination campaign. In the period […]
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(by Filippo Moreschi, lawyer and Head of AIDR “Digital Agrifood” Observatory) The National Recovery and Resilience Plan, presented in recent days to Parliament, also deals with the agri-food world. The Plan is divided into a general part and two sectors, the first dedicated to reforms and the second divided into six Missions (Digitization, Revolution [...]
read moreThe medical transport in favor of a woman suffering from COVID-3 took place yesterday, Monday 19 May, who was transported from Cagliari to Bologna aboard a C-27J aircraft of the 46th Air Force Brigade of Pisa of the Italian Air Force. The transport in high biocontainment was requested by the General Directorate of Civil Protection Sardinia [...]
read more(by Claudio Nassisi, Chartered Accountant and Phd in Economics and Aidr partner) Italy was, among the EU countries, the one that has perhaps most suffered the effects of the pandemic since last March 2020 and there are strong doubts about the expected times for a return to a condition of normality. The companies reacted by suspending the [...]
read moreLast night, in Milan, as part of control services on compliance with the national regulations for the containment of COVID-19, the soldiers of the Radiomobile Nucleus and personnel of the Compagnia Carabinieri Milano Duomo, following reports, intervened: At 23.00 pm, in via Varé , at a restaurant, where the presence of patrons beyond the allowed time had been reported, [...]
read more"The trend of infections is clearly decreasing but nothing changes for bars, restaurants, gyms and swimming pools". The League considers this decree too restrictive and not in line with the real needs of the country which needs to leave again in total safety. "Our abstention in Cdm is the voice of all those companies and activities [...]
read moreThe two PVDs of the Italian Air Force are part of the EOS operation, commissioned by the Minister of Defense Lorenzo Guerini and directed by the Operational Command of the Joint Forces Summit to combat the spread of Covid-19. A new Vaccinal Defense Presidium (PVD) has been operational since yesterday morning in Milan, at the Command of the 1st Air Region of the Italian Air Force, within [...]
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Estimates from the Observatory on financial statements published by the Council and the National Foundation of Accountants: In 2021 a reduction in turnover of -35% is estimated against -44,2% in 2020 The restaurant and hotel sector due to the Covid emergency- 19 burns over 2020 billion euros in the two-year period 2021-38. In particular, the more than 74 joint-stock companies of this [...]
read moreThe Italian Medicines Agency has published the third Pharmacovigilance Report on COVID-19 vaccines. The data collected and analyzed concern the reports of suspected adverse reactions registered in the National Pharmacovigilance Network between 27 December 2020 and 26 March 2021 for the three vaccines in use in the current vaccination campaign. In the period […]
read moreTo ease the increasingly widespread social tension in many categories of self-employment, the Government must abandon the micro-aid policy implemented up to now, replacing it with extraordinary measures capable of mitigating the negative effects that the pandemic crisis is producing. Given the urgency, according to the CGIA Studies Office it is necessary, for example, to "apply" [...]
read moreAlso during the weekend there were numerous interventions by the Carabinieri for clandestine parties and violations of the anti-covid regulations.On the evening of April 03, around 18:30, in Milan, as part of targeted control services on compliance of the national regulations on the containment of the covid-19 pandemic, military members of the Nucleus [...]
read moreDirect aid allocated by the Conte and Draghi governments to businesses and self-employed workers in this first year of the pandemic amounts to 64,7 billion euros. Resources, however, which in large part have yet to be disbursed. The CGIA Studies Office estimates that up to now Italian entrepreneurs have benefited from 27 billion [...]
read moreFollowing the reporting of some serious adverse events, in conjunction with the administration of doses belonging to the ABV2856 batch of the AstraZeneca anti COVID-19 vaccine, AIFA has decided as a precaution to issue a ban on the use of this batch throughout the national territory and reserves the right to take further measures, if necessary, […]
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(by Emanuela Ricci) Two other red areas in Lazio due to the high incidence of English variant cases. The ordinances of the Lazio Region have ordered the maximum restriction measures for Colleferro and Carpineto, two municipalities in the province of Rome. In Lazio, the red zone has already been activated for Roccagorga in the province of Latina. The ordinance [...]
read moreIsrael plans to reopen restaurants around March 9 as part of its gradual return to normal as the COVID-19 vaccination campaign continues with rapidity.With over 41% of Israelis having received at least one dose of Pfizer Inc's vaccine, Israel plans partially reopen hotels and gyms on 23 [...]
read moreThe analysis that emerged from the study "Italian public debt and Covid - 19" carried out by the Council and the National Foundation of Accountants, Among the G20 countries, Italy shows the greatest increase in the debt / GDP ratio (+22,9 %) after Canada (+ 28,9%) and Japan (+ 24,1%). Miani (national president of accountants): "Avoiding new tax shocks" In 2020 the [...]
read moreThe suspected adverse reactions reported are in line with the information already present in the summary of the product characteristics of the vaccines and the analyzes conducted on the data acquired up to now confirm their safety profile The Italian Medicines Agency has published the first Pharmacovigilance Report on COVID-19 vaccines, which will take place monthly. I [...]
read moreFollowing the numerous press interpretations of the last few hours, AIFA specifies that the position of the Technical Scientific Commission has remained unchanged with respect to that expressed in the meeting on Saturday 30 January. Pending further studies, the indication for the AstraZeneca vaccine remains preferentially for the population between 18 and 55 years and without [...]
read moreAIFA authorizes the AstraZeneca vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in individuals over the age of 18, as per EMA indication. "The arrival of a third vaccine represents an important contribution to the ongoing vaccination campaign", comments AIFA DG Nicola Magrini and "AIFA has provided indications for optimizing the use of existing vaccines [...]
read moreThe new Decree of the President of the Council of Ministers was signed with the new measures to contain the spread of COVID-19. Below is a summary of what is expected for the school. Measures valid throughout the national territory: Upper secondary schools adopt flexible forms in the didactic organization so that, at [...]
read moreThe Italian Medicines Agency has authorized the Covid 19 Vaccine Moderna for the prevention of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in subjects aged 18 and over. The General Manager, Nicola Magrini, was very satisfied: "We welcome the possibility of making a second tool available for this vaccination campaign that is [...]
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A record-breaking vaccination campaign is underway in Israel, with a tenth of the population already receiving the first dose. This is not the case, however, for the Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinian Authority has not asked the Israelis for help. If the vaccination of the Israeli population continues at this rate it could reach [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) With the start of vaccination campaigns around the world, the military sector is in a hurry to make its men immune from the virus. The US, Russia and China have already started mass vaccination of their military before other categories of the population to show that the priority is to maintain [...]
read more(by Ruggero Parrotto, President of iKairos - mentoring and social economy and Aidr partner) We have thought so many. We needed a pandemic, with its dead, and all. It had been talked about for at least thirty years. Since the first pioneering initiatives of Telecom Italia, IBM and some other companies were developed, available [...]
read moreV Day is also taking place in Tuscany. The first 8 doses of vaccine destined for hospitals in Tuscany left this morning around 620 am, escorted by the patrols of the State Police. They arrived at the Florentine hospital of Careggi at dawn escorted by an army vehicle and from there they left to reach 11 hospitals in the region [...]
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“The advantage of this medicine is that it gives you immediate antibodies - explains Catherine Houlihan, a virologist at University College London Hospital (Uclh). We could tell trial participants who have been exposed: 'yes, you can have the vaccine'. But we cannot assure them that it will protect them from the disease, because it is too late: current vaccines do not confer immunity [...]
read moreUse in Italy of the monoclonal antibody bamlanivimab for the treatment of Covid-19: from Eli Lilly no free offer, only request for approval for the sale In the last few days some articles have been published in national newspapers in which it gives rise to resistance that AIFA would have opposed to the use in Italy of a drug, the monoclonal antibody Bamlanivimab, produced [...]
read moreThe long-awaited marketing authorization for the vaccine has arrived. The European drug agency has in fact kicked off the marketing of Pfizer-BioNTech's anti-Covid vaccine in individuals over 16 years of age. It is in fact a "conditional" approval, as the drug is not recommended for children under 16. After the rigorous investigations [...]
read moreFree screening-day this morning at the “Nando Martellini” municipal sports facility for children and families in difficulty Prevention first of all, to counteract the spread of a pandemic that is hard to control where possible. And a little more serenity, close to a Christmas certainly different from the others, but which for the little ones [...]
read moreGuerini: Armed Forces serving the country. The defense's commitment in this emergency continues unabated. The flight brought back two Covid-19 patients from Albania to Italy On the night between Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 December, two men with COVID-19 were repatriated from Tirana, with a transport in biocontainment, carried out by a [... ]
read moreOn the evening of Saturday, December 12, a 56-year-old man suffering from COVID-19, due to his worsening condition, was urgently transported from the “S. Pio da Pietrelcina ”of Vasto at the“ Mater Domini ”of Catanzaro aboard a C-130J of the 46th Air Brigade of the Italian Air Force. The transport was requested by the Prefecture of [...]
read moreThe result of a collaboration between the University of Milan, the Milan Polyclinic and the Italian Air Force, the discovery of the molecular marker is able to predict the severity of the clinical picture in subjects affected by COVID-19 and to optimize efforts. therapeutic treatments for the individual Born in Milan, one of the cities most affected by [...]
read moreWith reference to the article published yesterday by "Il Tempo" with the title "Hidden the true infections at school", the Ministry of Education makes it known that it considers the accusations of the newspaper very serious and false. No data was ever hidden. The information on infections in the school environment, collected thanks to the fruitful collaboration of school managers, has always been [...]
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Lifeanalytics investigations: coronavirus RNA detected on 5% of surfaces even after normal disinfection activity and in 48% of wastewater in about 100 cities. Swabs alone are not enough to monitor the overall progress of the Covid pandemic- 19 in Italy. Analysis of water, air and surfaces in the workplace [...]
read more(by Francesco Matera) There are recent news from the world of national information according to which a health protocol has been prepared to be followed for the care of people infected with Covid-19, at their homes. Some perplexities arise spontaneously if we think of so many ordinary people who have difficulty in interpreting the provisions of a [...]
read moreThe spike protein looks like little pins stuck in the big cell, it is it that we must stop to stop the infection in an organism. At The Protein Factory 2,0 laboratory of the Department of Biotechnology and Life Sciences of the University of Varese, the protein has been reproduced and is made available to those [...]
read moreYesterday, the usual weekend slowdown in the number of swabs performed, about 196000, however, highlighted that the coronavirus infection does not let go. 33.979 are the positives identified, 546 victims and intensive care registers an increase of 116 places bringing the total number of people in intensive care to 3.422. We remind you that the [...]
read more(by Marco Zacchera) Absolutely unheard, I continue to propose a simple but important idea for millions of businesses and families: to block maximum bank rates on current account advances and loans, valid for both domestic and corporate loans. Especially for families, the usual unscrupulous financial firms circumvent the law [...]
read moreIn a press release, the Air Force announced that the first three Drive Through stations set up as part of the "IGEA Operation", strongly desired by the Ministry of Defense to increase, through health personnel, are operational from today in Lecco, Meda and Caponago specialized of all the Armed Forces, the daily capacity of the National Health Service to carry out [...]
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Prime Minister Conte, on the strength of data that show almost stable data at the moment, will not impose new national restrictions leaving full discretion to the various governors. Arcuri will officially take care of the operational plan for the distribution and storage of the German-American vaccine arriving in Italy as early as January 2021. (by Andrea Pinto) The contagion curve for [...]
read moreThe third meeting of the Working Group which brings together the European countries most affected by the pandemic and which deals with the risks of infiltration of organized crime into the economy and, more generally, the threats to security following the spread of COVID 19. The project, conceived and co-directed by Italy and [...]
read moreDue to Covid, this year every Italian will lose on average almost 2.500 euros (precisely 2.484), with peaks of 3.456 euros in Florence, 3.603 euros in Bologna, 3.645 in Modena, 4.058 in Bolzano and even 5.575 euros in Milan. To estimate the contraction of the added value per inhabitant at the provincial level, he thought about it [...]
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"A shared strategy to incorporate the new decisions of the dpcm on Public Transport and the need to prepare immediately for the desired restart of the activities, first of all the schools". These were the themes of the meeting that was held yesterday at the MIT between the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Paola De Micheli [...]
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Green light for the movement of heavy vehicles over the next weekend With the decree signed today by the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Paola De Micheli, hauliers will be able to circulate freely even in the next three weekends of the month. In particular, on Sunday 8, 15 and 22 November the vehicles used for the transport of things, of [...]
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To deal with the health and economic crisis caused by Covid, since last spring the German government has provided 284 billion euros in support, in particular, of workers, businesses, schools, transport and health. Well 194 more than those allocated for the same areas by our executive. Also including the measures introduced this week [...]
read moreThe virus does not loosen its grip, France and Germany are ready for the lockdown in differentiated measures: Only yesterday 230 billion euros were burned from the stock exchanges. Today the Heads of State and Government will meet via video conference to discuss the Von der Lyen anti-CoVid-19 guidelines. Probable delivery of the vaccine to [...]
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AIFA signs 'Nature' appeal - a European network of national agencies for the response to the covid-19 emergency and other epidemics The AIFA Director General Nicola Magrini is among the signatories of the appeal launched by the journal Nature to the European institutions for establishment of a network of National Agencies for the management of epidemic emergencies such as [...]
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Israeli TV reported that Mossad (the external intelligence agency), would have provided the country with a vaccine against CoVid-19 produced in China. The news came following the government announcement this weekend that it was stepping up diplomatic efforts to acquire the best coronavirus vaccine. According to The Jerusalem newspaper [...]
read moreThe new lockdown approved today will not only affect bars, pizzerias and restaurants, but also 18.200 ice cream parlors and pastry shops belonging to the craft sector which in Italy employ over 50 employees. The concern for the economic and employment stability of these activities is very high, according to the CGIA. Report the office coordinator [...]
read moreNew Army post for Drive-Through tampons in the military city of Cecchignola About 1.400 units, distributed in 200 teams and capable of performing up to 30.000 tampons per day, will be operational starting next weekend. This is the contribution of Operation "Igea", conducted by joint teams made up of personnel from the Army and others [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) The Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte does not want to hear about General Lockdown. There is much concern for the country's economy that it cannot go ahead with welfare measures. It is no coincidence that Conte, during last night's speech, said that the measures to support income do not [...]
read moreThe controversy on the provisions adopted in the school sector continues. The debate that characterized the week just ended could continue with bright tones even today to solve the problem of gatherings in local public transport. We remind you that the DAD is one of the solutions requested by the Regions to deal with the problem in [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Yesterday alone, 400 cases of Coronavirus positives were discovered in Rome. Endless queues to be tested at the hospitals of the capital. To intervene, hopefully in time, the provincial committee for public order and safety, which also met yesterday in the Prefecture in Rome. The meeting was attended by [...]
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In a press release the Presidency of the Council of Ministers announced that the Technical Scientific Committee met yesterday to analyze the redefinition of quarantine and fiduciary isolation. The CTS, in line with international guidelines and adopting the principle of maximum caution, underlines the need to update the diagnostic path for the identification of positive cases [...]
read moreThe strong impact of the lockdown on the psyche emerges from 6.000 interviews conducted by Elma Research for Angelini Pharma in 6 European countries. Greater in Spain, Great Britain and Italy, where the incidence of COVID 19 was highest. Limited use of professional figures and limited search for information: only 1 out of 4. Good [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Refinancing of measures already in force, such as social safety nets, reserved for the sectors most in crisis, bonus 100 euros, tax reduction in the South and the relaunch of Impresa 4.0. These are the main measures contained in the NaDef (update note to the Def). Basically, we continue on the same path while waiting for European funds [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Last Sunday the newspaper la Repubblica announced that five deputies had requested the 600 euro bonus provided for VAT and self-employed parties. After a few hours it became known that three were from the Lega, one from the 5 Star Movement and one from Italia Viva. Italia Viva then denied it. [...]
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(by Marco Zacchera) 40 years have passed since the Bologna massacre, from the shooting down of the Itavia plane over Ustica, from too many other forgotten massacres still covered by too many mysteries that everyone wants to discover in words, but that in the end you never know each other . An ugly Italian vice, but which is perpetuated and renewed. How many know [...]
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(by Andrea Bisciglia) Telemedicine has long remained little widespread and at the level of simple experimentation, but with the Covid-19 health emergency it has registered a real boom of interest among operators in the sector. The Covid-19 emergency has accelerated the digital and organizational transformation, explains Andrea Bisciglia, cardiologist and head of the Digital Health Observatory [...]
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Over 1,6 billion to restart the school in September. The relaunch decree, approved today in the Chamber, which now passes to the Senate provides for them. "These are significant funds - underlines the Minister of Education Lucia Azzolina - which are added to those allocated in recent months for the school on which, finally, we return to [...]
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The Training Institutes of the Italian Army in training In the next few days, for the duration of three months, about 1000 visitors to the Training, Specialization and Doctrine Area of the Army, coming from the Army Training Command and Application School of Turin, from the Military Academy of Modena and from the NCO School of Viterbo, will begin the joint exercise called "UNA [...]
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(by Stefania Capogna) The Digital Conference promoted by the DiTES (Digital Technologies, Education & Society) and DASIC (Digital Administration and Social Innovation Center) research centers of Link Campus University took place on 25 June 2020, in collaboration with AIDR ( Italian Digital Revolution Association) to reflect in a multidisciplinary and multi-perspective key on the "complex doctor-patient relationship" [...]
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The ABI immediately issued a new circular to the banks on the application of art. 13, i.e. of the loans guaranteed by the SME Guarantee Fund, as amended by the Parliament during the conversion into Law of the Law Decree 8 April 2020 n. 23, as soon as the legislation has been completed, with the approval of the changes made to art. 13 [...]
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The randomized study to evaluate the efficacy of tocilizumab, administered at an early stage, against standard therapy in patients with Covid-126 pneumonia was concluded early, after the enrollment of 19 patients (one third of the expected series). recent onset requiring hospital care, but not invasive or semi-invasive mechanical ventilation procedures. It [...]
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Covid 19 - Meeting between the leaders of the Police Forces of Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Holland, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, with Italy and Europol called to direct the work The meeting on the 'crime emergency following the pandemic caused by Covid 19 in Europe, with the participation of [...]
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The provisions in force until 14 July The Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Paola De Micheli yesterday signed a decree to rationalize the air transport service with the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza. In consideration of the numerous requests from airport operators, the geographical location of the airports in [...]
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(by Emanuela Ricci) The editorial staff of PRP Channel, for about a week, began an investigation between the administrations of the various Italian municipalities to obtain feedback directly from the territories on the measures implemented following the health emergency due to the pandemic from COVID-19. The findings requested concern both the prudential measures put in place [...]
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At the moment, no critical situations related to the Covid-19 epidemic are reported in Italy. This is in summary the result of the monitoring of the indicators for the so-called Phase 2 for the week between 25 and 31 May. It is emphasized that, for the time between exposure to the pathogen and the development of symptoms and between [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) The Associated Press agency, yesterday, published on its website a series of documents of the World Health Organization, referring to last January, when the director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus openly praised the cooperation of the Chinese in the exchange information. In great secrecy, however, the Organization officials were very worried about the delays and [...]
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In a note, the Ministry of Health announces that from today on the Apple and Google stores the Immuni app, available free of charge, can be downloaded throughout Italy. This is an innovative technological support that joins the initiatives already implemented by the Government to limit the spread of the Covid-19 virus. Has been […]
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About 42 disability allowance holders and seasonal workers will receive the COVID 19 indemnity following the review of the applications. New categories of entertainment workers will benefit from the allowance. The deadlines for submitting applications for ordinary invalidity allowances and for the integration of citizenship income have been extended to 8 June. We communicate [...]
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The impact of the lockdown on the road haulage sector turnover, almost 2 billion lost, business birth rates at -30%, nine hundred million kilometers less, 1,8 billion in turnover lost, and a denatality that exceeds 30%. These are the data for March and April, processed - in comparison with the same period of 2019 - by the Confcommercio Research Office for [...]
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(by Girolamo Panetta) In the midst of the digital revolution, we are witnessing a proliferation of computer applications, which we all now know as APP, which arise with the pretense of solving any problem that man has to face every day. Since the birth of the infamous Smartphones, which have meant so much for the digital transformation of our society, [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) A few months ago, before the virus took over all of humanity, its lives, its behaviors and its certainties, the World Health Organization had drawn up a report on the healthcare system in Africa from which it emerged a consolidated and, unfortunately, known situation of alarming deterioration. In particular, the report put in [...]
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(by Sandro Zilli) SCENARIO In 2020, thanks to the systemic shock of the COVID-19 pandemic that has hit health and economic systems all over the world, a dizzying expansion of new exponential technologies is looming, which will have the objective of improving quality of life of people. We are witnessing the consolidation of a phenomenon already [...]
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With the beginning of the so-called "Phase 2" of the health emergency linked to COVID-19, many companies are starting up again and to comply with the required safety standards, demonstrating a great sense of responsibility towards their employees, they try to obtain supplies as soon as possible possible time of Personal Protective Equipment. It is precisely in the need to quickly find [...]
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The Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic takes note of the in-depth analysis carried out by the Honorable Borghi (PD) and expresses concern about the use of techniques to make the news viral: above all the COVID-19 pandemic was at the center of a widespread activity of online disinformation, which includes state actors, structured actors (think tanks, stakeholders, professionals [...]
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The first Webinar on Tourism that brings together academics, researchers, institutions and professionals in the sector. The President of Federturismo Confindustria Marina Lalli and the President of ENIT, Giorgio Palmucci, spoke as speakers What will tourism be like after Covid-19? This is the main topic of the virtual conference organized by the Degree Course Tourism and enhancement of the territory [...]
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With a formula that combines the pleasure of experience with attention to safety After closing due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the restaurants of Eataly Roma Ostiense, Eataly Milano Smeraldo, Eataly Trieste, Eataly Genova, Eataly Bologna reopen on Wednesday 20 May and Eataly Bari; Saturday 23 May it is the turn of Eataly Torino Lingotto and Lagrange, Eataly [...]
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(by Sergio Alberto Codella, labor lawyer and AIDR General Secretary) Only a few months ago no one could have imagined what would have happened. In the personal, family and professional programs of each of us, the experience of a pandemic that would have upset our daily lives, but above all our certainties, was not counted even among the worst nightmares and at [...]
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(by John Blackeye) The civil protection bulletin arrived on time again tonight. Lombardy leads the Italian ranking of positives, as many as 27.679 cases, 10.702 in Piedmont, 5.852 in Emilia-Romagna and so on. If on the one hand the bulletin continues to show positive signs in terms of healed, discharged and hospitalized or in intensive care, on the other it puts [...]
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Government-Regions Agreement: reopening Monday one meter away, quarantine will be banned from 3 June
(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Mini quarrel between the Government and the Regions on the guidelines to be adopted, starting from Monday 18 May, when the shutters of all commercial activities will be raised. It will be the day when Italy really reopens but with a new look: all with masks and spaced one meter apart, an unavoidable condition for [...]
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The number of currently positive people continues to decline. The Department's commitment to coordinating all the components and operational structures of the National Civil Protection Service continues. In particular, in the context of health monitoring relating to the spread of Coronavirus in our territory, to date, May 15, the total number of people who have contracted the [...]
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(by John Blackeye) The Civil Protection bulletin yesterday registered almost a thousand new infected. The media, however, highlight only the data with the minus signs and therefore the public opinion is convinced "that everything will be fine" and since there are fewer patients in intensive care, fewer hospitalized and fewer I don't know what, [... ]
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(by Marco Zacchera) Many newspapers - such as IL TEMPO - have published the ranking of the most famous virologists in the world appeared on "Scopus", a database updated periodically on the basis of over 25000 articles and reviews from more than 5000 international publishers in the field scientific, technical, medical and social with coverage extended to world conferences [...]
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“Just a few pennies. In other words, with the grants the Government is offering a glass of water to everyone, but it is not in a position to quench the thirst of those who really need it "This is the first hot comment released by the coordinator of the 'CGIA Study Office, Paolo Zabeo, after having [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) In the evening the press conference after the Council of Ministers which decreed the maxi maneuver of 55 billion for the "Relaunch" of Italy. A shower of money to try not to leave anyone behind, many measures in support of employees and self-employed, of school and research and for the [...]
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The State Police of Cagliari denounced three people, directors of companies based in Brescia and in the province of Salerno, responsible for the crimes of fraud in the exercise of trade and material forgery committed by the private individual in certificates. Operation Mask, launched in the context of combating the marketing of PPE to be used for the COVID-19 emergency, was conducted [...]
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ABI and the General Secretaries of the trade unions Fabi, First-Cisl, Fisac-Cgil, Uilca, Unisin, meeting by videoconference, today defined a meeting minutes with which the Protocol of April 28, 2020 containing "Prevention measures contrast and containment of the spread of the Covid-19 virus to ensure the provision of services in the banking sector [...]
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“Up until now, the government has told citizens what to do and has closed putting everything on their shoulders. We have grown tired of the lectures, approximations and sermons. It is time for the government to do what it must to get back to normal. We have developed a 10-parameter plan to analyze in order to [...]
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It would seem that an agreement has been reached between the government and regional presidents on reopening from 18 May. Based on the monitoring of the data, guidelines for the reopening of retail businesses, bars and restaurants, beauticians and hairdressers will arrive in the coming days. If there was an increase in infections and it was necessary to block new [...]
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(by Biagino Costanzo - AIDR member and co-founder of KNOSSO) In times of health emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the debate on the application desired by the Government but not yet operational, called, for the moment, "Immune ". More has been said about the usefulness of its use and the risks of using it. Trying […]
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Under one thousand patients in intensive care. The decline continues The Department's commitment to coordinating all the components and operational structures of the National Civil Protection Service continues. In particular, in the context of health monitoring relating to the spread of Coronavirus in our territory, to date, May 11, the total number of people who [...]
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Redesigning the network of key local health services to limit contagion and minimize the influx to hospitals (by Andrea Bisciglia, cardiologist and head of the AIDR Digital Health Observatory) The days we are living in, in full epidemic of Covid 19 , make it necessary to assist the patient remotely, monitoring, evaluating and intervening, both for [...]
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(by John Blackeye) Someone would say: it thundered so much that it rained. The reopening of all national activities, be they commercial or work, has been imposed on public opinion for months with the continuous hammering of national televisions that have tried in every way, until this evening to imply that "everything goes good […]
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The manifestations of solidarity are multiplying, simple gestures in a society that too often has distinguished itself for selfishness and hypocrisy ... gestures that invite us to reflect to give the right value to the mystery meaning of life. The initiative of a group of volunteers who joined together from north to south to offer [...]
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According to the CGIA, the lockdown must now be applied to taxes. In particular, those paid by the self-employed and small and micro enterprises with a turnover of up to 1 million euro per year which, in the absence of a strong cut in fixed costs, risk closing permanently. The coordinator of the Paolo Zabeo Studies Office states: [...]
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(by Marco Zacchera) We must seriously address the problem of relations with China both in terms of commercial and strategic aspects and to understand how the Coronavirus was born and evolved. This not only to outline any Chinese responsibilities, but above all for our future since it is yet another epidemic that "starts" from [...]
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The information system model to aim for in order to recover lost revenues and margins and to move quickly towards achieving the objectives of one's mission. Frequent market changes deriving from various factors (technological evolution, globalization, cost optimization, and why not, health crisis) subject the Information Systems of organizations, be they public [...]
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Together, Istituto Superiore di Sanità and AIFA are engaged in the development of a comparative (randomized) and controlled national study to evaluate the efficacy and role of plasma obtained from patients recovered from Covid-19 with a single and standardized method. The plasma of the healed subjects is used to treat, in this prospective study, patients suffering from [...]
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(by Paola Palma) I had a wonderful teacher from whom I learned a lot. He told us: "Look at the advertising around the street and it will tell you the secrets, the dreams, the fears, which that country has in its heart!" I never stopped reminding myself of that advice. Today, moving through a silent, ghostly and wounded Milan, [...]
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(by John Blackeye) If other nations in the world have a strong team spirit and a great sense of national unity, we can only bring these feelings out during the World Cup and, sporadically, during periods of national crisis or calamity. . Not even a very poisonous pandemic that with its lethality has [...]
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"It will now be up to the Apulian municipalities to manage, based on the number of inhabitants, the additional 9,3 million euros that the Region has made available, after the first 11,5 million, yesterday approving the text of the law" Extraordinary measures to cope with socio-economic consequences deriving from the Covid-19 pandemic ". Thus in a note the regional councilor of the Democratic Party [...]
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(by Vito Coviello, AIDR member, Head of the Digital Technologies Observatory in the transport and logistics sector) Today, May 4th the long awaited but also feared Phase 2 will begin and then there will be Phase 3, that of "free all" we all look forward to arriving soon. When all is over and the virus [...]
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21.172 anti-fraud controls on the agri-food chain, of which 2.543 inspections directly at the production plants, with particular attention to DOP, IGP quality products, organic products and the oil and wine sector. Tight checks on e-commerce channels, given the increase in online sales and monitoring of reports of unfair practices. It is online on [...]
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Covid 19 and May 19st do not stop drug dealing. Carabinieri arrest two pushers On the weekend of May XNUMXst, under the banner of Covid XNUMX restrictions, the Carabinieri of the Compagnia di Colleferro carried out various activities aimed at combating the sale and consumption of drugs. The Carabinieri of the Station of [...]
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As part of the prevention and control activities of the city territory carried out by the Naples Local Police Command, addressed in particular to the controls for the containment of the COVID-19 emergency, staff of the Central Investigative Unit following investigative observation activities carried out in civilian clothes with the aid of vehicles without school insignia carried out [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The first night of the presidency of the parliamentary halls by the League has passed, they will continue to the bitter end until their requests are heard and evaluated. The Carroccio parliamentarians want the next government decisions to pass through the Parliament, as it always was before the Covid-19 health emergency was decreed. [...]
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Today the highest number of discharged and healed since the beginning of the emergency The Department's commitment to coordinating all the components and operational structures of the National Civil Protection Service continues. In particular, in the context of health monitoring relating to the spread of Coronavirus in our territory, to date, April 30, the total of people who [...]
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Intensive care and hospitalized patients with symptoms continue to decline. The Department's commitment to coordinating all the components and operational structures of the National Civil Protection Service continues. In particular, in the context of health monitoring relating to the spread of Coronavirus in our territory, to date, April 29, the total number of people who have contracted the [...]
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ABI and the General Secretaries of the trade unions Fabi, First-Cisl, Fisac-Cgil, Uilca, Unisin have shared a Protocol containing "Measures to prevent, contrast and contain the spread of the Covid-19 virus to guarantee the provision of banking sector services pursuant to the Prime Ministerial Decree of April 26, 2020 ". ABI and the trade unions constantly follow the regulatory evolution connected to each [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The speech of the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, on Sunday evening, did not convince anyone, from politics to journalists, from commentators to ordinary citizens. A premier too clumsy, tense, with an inappropriate vocabulary and far from the measured and well-timed one he had accustomed us to in previous releases [...]
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Credit and liquidity for households and businesses: almost 1,3 million requests for moratorium as of April 17 and more than 20.000 applications to the Guarantee Fund for SMEs Almost 1,3 million applications or communications relating to loan moratoriums and more than 20.000 guarantee requests for new bank loans for [...]
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Family-run shop, mother and son arrested by the Carabinieri The attention of the Carabinieri of the Compagnia di Colleferro remains high on the repression of the phenomenon of drug dealing. The soldiers of the Colleferro Station, together with their colleagues from Gavignano, arrested 2 people, mother and son, aged 49 and 23, both with clean records, [...]
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(John Blackeye) The press conference of the President of the Council of Ministers was expected for about 20:30 and when the President Conte appeared on TV, millions of Italians were ready to memorize the new detailed indications on the behavior to be adopted to face the reopening of the company while it is still [...]
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(by John Blackeye) The average Italian does not need many frills and reassurance so phase two has already started a week ago as the deserted cities are suddenly populated with cars speeding by at full speed. Yes, because, despite the fact that there are still relatively few cars on the street and almost non-existent traffic [...]
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Di Iorio: "the next step is to reduce VAT from 22 to 4 percent" They have aroused media and social interest, becoming, in fact, the symbol of the ongoing health emergency: the masks, especially in view of the imminent Phase 2, they will become part of our "daily clothing". For this reason Federfarma Napoli, the trade union association that groups [...]
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Covid-19 effect: one small company out of 2 reports that payments have been extended One small company out of 2, reports the CGIA, reports that the payment times of private clients have lengthened dramatically and this is putting financial stability at risk of many hauliers, packaging producers and a part [...]
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Stipulated an agreement between INPS and the Civil Protection of the Autonomous Province of Trento for the use of a structure for fiduciary home isolation INPS and the Civil Protection of the Autonomous Province of Trento have entered into an agreement to welcome paucisymptomatic patients affected by COVID 19 in the home by the Master of San Cristoforo al Lago, Pergine Valsugana [...]
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ABI and trade unions Fabi, First-Cisl, Fisac-Cgil, Uilca, Unisin met today in a video conference to continue the analysis and monitoring of measures to prevent, contrast and contain the spread of the Covid-19 virus in the banking sector At the end of the meeting, ABI and the trade unions agreed that as soon as the regulatory framework for the "phase [...]
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Belgium's two major intelligence agencies have released a declassified report warning that national groups linked to the far left and far right are using the COVID-19 pandemic to destabilize society. The report was published Wednesday on the website of the State Security Service (VSSE), the main intelligence agency […]
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Bellanova: act immediately to guarantee food to those in difficulty due to the virus Strong appreciation for the action put in place by the Ministry, great willingness to work together, simplification of procedures, speeding up of the required steps and issuing of tenders, necessity of a national coordination because "the food emergency is increasing and the measures must reach [...]
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(John Blackeye) In these hectic hours to organize phase 2 of a pandemic that has no phases, the Government is committed to finding staggered opening solutions for factories, shops, businesses, construction sites and so on. The hope of the population is that the Government is aware that all these productive activities [...]
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The Italian company Advent Irbm of Pomezia and the Jenner Institute of Oxford University - explains the Ministry of Health on the official website - have, in fact, announced that accelerated tests of the anti-Covid-19 vaccine prototype will begin in England at the end of April. 550 healthy volunteers. Normally the average times to get to enter a [...]
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(John Blackeye) Anxiously awaited, like every evening, the latest bulletin of the Civil Protection has arrived. Sector insiders, journalists, politicians and ordinary people stop for five minutes and carefully read that sheet that reports the situation of the evolution of the pandemic on the national territory. The sentence that is repeated several times by the commissioner [...]
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Created by the Menarini International Foundation, a collection of all the most relevant and authoritative scientific publications on Covid-19, selected and constantly updated under the guidance of the Nobel Prize for Medicine Louis, is available on the website www.en.fondazione-menarini.it J. Ignarro, member of the Scientific Committee of the Foundation. The only one of its kind, free and with free access, the [...]
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Very interesting for the contents and for the analysis made, the article by General Pasquale Preziosa, President of the Eurispes Security Observatory, and by prof. Dario Velo, well-known economist who contributed to the construction of the European Union by collaborating with A. Spinelli, J. Monnet and other European leaders. Published on leurispes.it, Preziosa and Velo, after a clear and detailed description of the [...]
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(by John Blackeye) Trusting a government that reassured the nation in the first two months of the pandemic that there was no need for masks remains very difficult. A people that looks disoriented at the insecure movements of politicians, experts and great managers that come out of nowhere, needs certain initiatives that put first [...]
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As part of the controls for the containment of the Covid19 contagion, on Thursday 16 April the Local Police of the Municipality of Naples deployed 366 agents, who checked the self-certification forms to 1.994 vehicle drivers and 881 people on foot. The patrols raised 15 fines of € 533,33 for [...]
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ABI and trade union organizations Fabi, First-Cisl, Fisac-Cgil, Uilca, Unisin have today signed the agreement for the use of the ordinary services of the sector solidarity fund for the management of the reduction of working activity linked to the spread of the virus Covid-19 in light of the support measures introduced with the “Cura Italia”. The women and men who work [...]
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(by John Blackeye) The clash on the Mes between Five Stars and Pd has sent the spread to 245 basis points. Then the BTP-Bund spread fell back to 236. Non-performing government bonds with a yield on the 2% threshold. Piazza Affari has lost almost 5%, the worst in Europe. The president of [...]
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The ABI Executive Committee met today in videoconference, chaired by Antonio Patuelli. The Executive Committee expressed great appreciation for the constant and diligent commitment of all colleagues and bank colleagues (and closeness to their families) who, without stopping, throughout Italy, with a spirit of service and strong sense [...]
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ABI met Fabi, First-Cisl, Fisac-Cgil, Uilca and Unisin today in a video meeting to continue the analysis and monitoring of the evolving scenario relating to the fight against the spread of the COVID-19 virus and the implementation of the Protocol shared March 16, 2020 "Measures to prevent, combat and contain the spread of the Covid-19 virus in the banking sector". Parts […]
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In the meeting with the regional councilors, all-round reconnaissance. Bellanova indicates the answers and the strategy to face and overcome the emergency The answers already put in place by the Ministry of Agricultural Policies on the issues that emerged in the last meeting with the Regions; the Measures for agriculture, agri-food, fishing, in the Italian Care Decree; the work in progress for [...]
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The ABI, with a circular letter already circulated this morning to all the Associates, communicated to the banks that the European Commission last night approved the indispensable authorization provided for in Law Decree no. 23 of 8 April 2020 to implement the important measures to support the liquidity of companies damaged by the COVID-19 emergency. Given the extreme necessity and [...]
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(by Francesco Pagano, Director of Aidr and Head of IT services at Ales spa and Scuderie del Quirinale) While waiting for the end of this period of self-imprisonment, it is important to start wondering about how to cross the so-called "phase two" of the pandemic from coronavirus, that is, the one in which our country can begin [...]
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The Chief of Defense Staff, General Enzo Vecciarelli, accompanied by the Commander of the Operational Command of the Joint Defense Force (COI), the Army Corps General Luciano Portolano, went to Bergamo to meet the men and women of the Armed Forces and the representatives of the various institutions, which for over 45 [...]
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The Chief of Defense Staff, General Enzo Vecciarelli today received the Minister of Defense Lorenzo Guerini and the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, on a visit to the "Celio" Polyclinic in Rome, where an inspection of the structures was carried out on the occasion of the recent start of extraordinary infrastructural interventions aimed at a rapid [...]
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Rome, April 8, 2020 - After the start of the working group yesterday, a new meeting today of the Italian Banking Association and SACE to analyze the operational aspects and the methods for implementing the measures contained in the "Liquidity" Law Decree in via publication in the Official Gazette. The goal is to define the fastest procedures to make [...]
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(by Rosangela Cesareo, head of institutional relations at Aidr) Aidr's appointment with institutions continues to clarify the pandemic. We spoke with Senator Vito Crimi, political leader of the Five Star Movement and Deputy Minister of the Interior. Senator Crimi, how do you feel as the political leader of a party facing this pandemic? "This […]
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Gabrielli: Police Forces, “anchors in the storm” Immediate response, rapid ability to adapt, balance, firmness and humanity. The COVID19 emergency also determined for the Police Forces the need for a sudden adaptation of the organization and the ability to respond to the protection needs of the citizen, in a completely unexpected scenario for the new tasks of [...]
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(by John Blackeye) Last night the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, after having communicated the contents of the latest decree, replied to a journalist on "phase 2", when after 13 April some activities could reopen: "And when this happens , however, a strict safety protocol must be respected. The government thinks about phase 2, even if [...]
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The health conditions of Boris Johnson, premier of the United Kingdom, worsen. The news, leaked at 19pm local time, shook the UK. In a message posted on Twitter this morning he said: "Good mood, I am in contact with my team and I arrived at the hospital for routine tests". In the afternoon […]
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At the headquarters of the Civil Protection Department, the work of the Operational Committee continues in order to ensure coordination of the interventions of the components and operational structures of the National Civil Protection Service. As part of the health monitoring related to the spread of Coronavirus on the national territory, at the moment 93.187 people test positive for the virus. To […]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Nations, under normal conditions, thrive in the belief that their institutions are able to manage disasters, stop their impact and restore stability. When the pandemic due to Covid-19 ends, the institutions of many countries will go into crisis because they will have realized that they have failed in their mission. The reality is [...]
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Interview with Davide D'Amico, engineer, member of the AIDR Board of Directors and MIUR manager Buongiorno dott. D'Amico, we are going through a complex time for the coronavirus emergency, although lately there have been improvements in the number of hospitalized. As AIDR you were among the first to propose a technological solution for the containment and monitoring of infections, what do you [...]
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(by John Blackeye) We are satisfied with a Premier who shows up on television a couple of times a week to take stock of the situation and to anticipate what the Government has decided to do for the following days. Great Britain, a former European colony, is waiting for the Queen's speech tonight. Useless [...]
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At least 7 billion euros. This is the estimated loss of turnover that artisan businesses will suffer in this month of closure due to the Coronavirus (from 12 March to 13 April 2020). To do the accounts was the CGIA Studies Office. The sectors most affected are also those [...]
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(by Rosangela Cesareo, Head of Institutional Relations Aidr) We met the Honorable Luisa Regimenti, Lega MEP and doctor. We asked her about her thoughts on the pandemic that Italy is experiencing. Honorable you are a doctor, how are you experiencing this pandemic? What do you feel like saying to your colleagues on the front line in the fight against the Coronavirus Covid-19? "I'm […]
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Having carried out 14 medical transport missions so far, Pisa becomes a reference hub for bio-containment flights. The airlift continues: 17 missions, eight regions reached, over 100 tons of material transported Two more positive people to Covid transported this morning in bio-containment with an Air Force aircraft, a C-130J of the 46th Air Brigade, from […]
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The Postal Police Department of Communications for the Marche in collaboration with CNAIPIC (National Center for Cybercrime and for the Protection of Critical Infrastructures) denounced a young man for posting on the network the threat of infecting a large number of people if they did not renew him free online subscription to a game of [...]
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At the request of the Minister of Defense Guerini, the Defense Staff through the Operational Command of Vertice Interforze (COI) completed the construction of an advanced medical post in Jesi in less than 72 hours, thanks to the prompt intervention of the Marina S. Marco Brigade. of the Navy, which provided for the design, inspections, [...]
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"We are close to health workers and volunteers for the altruism and courage they show every day" A little help, an action of solidarity to support the activity of health workers and volunteers of Italian hospitals engaged in the fight against the coronavirus. This is the spirit with which the Italian Digital Revolution Association (AIDR) and Canon Italia shared the initiative with [...]
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Controls by the Traffic Police intensified both on ordinary extra-urban roads and on the motorway. The Traffic Police is present on the major arteries to ensure compliance with the measures adopted to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus, to provide help and rescue to citizens and to support those in need. Such [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The spread of the virus from Covid-19 occurs quickly and it seems that the containment measures implemented are not effective enough, decisive. The social distance set at one meter, the use of masks (surgical and with filters, type FFP2-3), the limitations imposed on any activity to be carried out outdoors and many other measures [...]
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(by Francesca Zambuco - lawyer and AIDR partner) Italy was the first European country to be overwhelmed by the pandemic, but it risks being the last to intervene in support of businesses and to protect national strategic assets with dramatic consequences on the post - coronavirus. One month after the adoption of the first provision for [...]
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The arrivals, through military carriers, of the supports provided by NATO and the international community in response to the covid-19 emergency continue without interruption Yesterday afternoon, General Enzo Vecciarelli, Chief of Staff of Defense, went to the airport Military of Pratica di Mare where he assisted, in the presence of the Foreign Minister [...]
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C-130J and C-27J of the 46th Air Brigade in flight to transport medical material throughout the national territory An operational and logistical effort of great importance, the one put in place last night by the Air Force in the context of contrast activities at Covid-19 wanted by the Minister of Defense Lorenzo Guerini. At the specific request of the State [...]
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Bellanova: “strategic actions and interventions for sectors in crisis such as sheepmeat and buffalo milk” “We are putting in place every possible solution to face the effects of the spread of the coronavirus. With this goal we have today reached an agreement with the regions on the durum wheat fund decree up to 2022 for 40 million euros, on the [...]
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Today two special flights: one from Milan to Rome and one from China with a load of over 360 thousand masks The air rescue machine does not stop to face the Covid-19 emergency. Air Force aircraft and crews, already at the forefront from the early stages for the transport of patients in bio-containment, are engaged [...]
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(by Rosangela Cesareo, Head of Institutional Relations Aidr) We are experiencing an unprecedented tragic moment. We all feel in a storm with no way out. We anxiously await the contagion curve to drop to take our lives back. But after, what after we wait what will it be like? We have to prepare ourselves immediately to face it and do you know how? [...]
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The government measures implemented to contain and combat the spread of the coronavirus, summarized in the slogan that is spreading on the #iorestoacasa network, are having inevitable repercussions on the demand and supply of electricity and gas (by Gianfranco Ossino - Engineer and Head of Aidr Observatory for Digitization of the Environment and Energy) The measures adopted in recent decrees [...]
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Find the differences: "In Germany, the Covid-19 immunity passport is being studied, in Italy over 50 positives walking around the street" (by Massimiliano D'Elia) Germany, the country where there was the number one patient on the European continent, is addressing the Covid-19 pandemic with absolute rigor by issuing few rules, followed to the letter by the population and [...]
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Also in Genoa, the State Police has deployed all the resources available to stop Covid19. Not only men but also vehicles, in particular those that are normally used in public order services or in rescue operations and which, in this unprecedented emergency situation, will be used to clean [...]
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As reported on the website www.poliziadistato.it and on the social channels of the State Police, a fake flyer written on the headed paper of the "Ministry of the Interior-Department of Public Security" has spread in these days in many Italian provinces, with the logo of the Italian Republic. The fake flyer, which in some cities was found posted in the hallways [...]
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From Monday, the experts of the Italian Society of Andrology will be available on 02/50043133, for the entire duration of the health emergency, which requires the suspension of public and private specialist outpatient activities, except for non-postponable emergencies, such as cancer problems. Italians take the field against the coronavirus by opening a free telephone service [...]
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"I thank all of you for how and for what you are doing in this delicate moment for the Nation" - this is how the Head of State addressed the Men and Women of the Armed Forces of the operations room of the Summit Joint Operations Command (COI) Defense Major, General Enzo Vecciarelli, welcomed this morning by [...]
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In the difficult phase of health emergency that the country is going through, Leonardo, the main Italian industrial company and one of the most important Aerospace, Defense and Security companies in the world, continues to provide all its support in terms of resources, means and people to support national institutions in the management and containment of the Covid-19 epidemic. [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) "We fear social protests", this is the concern among the officials of the Interior Ministry who, according to what the Republic writes, say: "It is a very delicate situation that we follow with extreme attention in its profiles of public order but to be defused above all with social interventions. It is evident that in an emergency of [...]
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(by John Blackeye) We were stunned listening to the words of the British Premier Boris Johnson because, at least as far as I'm concerned, we had never heard of “herd immunity”. Then, deepening the concept, it was understood that herd immunity is one of the lines of action to follow in the event of a global epidemic and is equivalent to [...]
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Bellanova: “act immediately to support supply chains and ensure food for the most needy” “With the Cura Italia decree we have increased the fund for food assistance to the poor by 50 million euros. In a few days as an Administration we have developed a proposal that has been made official at the competent table and I hope that the charities [...]
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The US administration is considering expelling dozens of Chinese diplomats and journalists from the country, as they are believed to be undercover spies. Earlier this month, the Chinese government announced the expulsion of 13 American journalists from three major newspapers, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Washington Post. Beijing has imposed on [...]
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(by John Blackeye) The dismayed face of the Governor of the Lombardy Region, Avv. Fontana says a lot about the situation of the epidemic in that part of Northern Italy. The data they would have liked to read are others. A hint of a decline in the epidemic and deaths had bode well in the past two days. Someone had talked about the light in [...]
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(by Dr. Riccardo Pastore) The crisis generated by COVID-19 seems to have a unique force, even greater than that of 2008. The reason for this uniqueness lies in the fact that the almost general block of activities wears down the resources of businesses and families " from within ”and the flows to the banks decrease. In detail, it happens that companies burn liquidity [...]
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At the headquarters of the Civil Protection Department, the work of the Operational Committee continues in order to ensure coordination of the interventions of the components and operational structures of the National Civil Protection Service. As part of the health monitoring related to the spread of Coronavirus on the national territory, at the moment 62.013 people test positive for the virus. To date, […]
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An article signed by the president of the Observatory on Security, Pasquale Preziosa and the vice president, Roberto De Vita, has been published on the Eurispes website, where the theme of the "lockdown" implemented by most countries to combat the spread of COVID-19. An extreme and considered unique measure to stem the contagion of [...]
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There is much confusion on the real number of swabs carried out, doubts come from the numbers on the virus provided by the Government. The pollster Lorenzo Pregliasco of Youtrend tried to see more clearly on the official data provided by the Regions on the "tamponade" that ascertains the coronavirus infection through a complex laboratory test: he found that the [...]
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Gian Maria Gros-Pietro: “We want to advance knowledge about the Coronavirus and how to eradicate it. Our support for scientific research is added to the significant initiatives implemented by Intesa Sanpaolo in this difficult moment in our country ". Thus in a press release lntesa Sanpaolo announced that: In 2020 there will be 14 million [...]
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Eni's CEO, Claudio Descalzi: "Measures to defend balance sheet and dividend solidity" Eni, compared to what was communicated to the market on March 18, completed in advance the review of the business plan induced by the sharp reduction in commodity prices and the predictable constraints deriving from the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, in 2020 [...]
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“For over a month we have been constantly committed to contributing with all our energies within the country system to provide concrete answers every day to a health emergency that has unfortunately affected the habits and lifestyles of the families of an entire nation. I am deeply proud of how much the [...]
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A 2015 reportage video published by Tgr Leonardo threw most Italians into panic. There is talk of Chinese experiments on bats, but it is also specified that transmission to humans would have been impossible. The opposition requests for clarification, addressed to the head of the Farnesina, Luigi Di Maio, were immediate. "The minister […]
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(John Blackeye) I am not a mathematician and I am not an expert in statistics but if you look at the data that are provided to us on the Civil Protection web page, you understand that something - about this pandemic - is not right. I bring two examples for everyone. In Lombardy, about seventy thousand tampons that are [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Around 18.00 the usual war bulletin read by the representative of the Protection. Hundreds of deaths announced every day, we have broken a sad world record. Faced with this merciless scenario, the "assumptions" of the experts follow one another in the various television programs and in the major Italian newspapers. From the most catastrophic when the same [...]
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Active filtering at the service area of Rosarno Ovest in the province of Reggio Calabria As part of the activities aimed at containing and combating the spread of the Covid19 virus promoted by the regional ordinances of Calabria and Sicily, at the request of the Prefecture of Reggio Calabria, a garrison has been activated along the A2 motorway - Autostrada del [...]
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Since the Covid-19 emergency broke out, eminent scientists from all over the world have always condemned the theory that the virus was the result of bioengineering. The thesis is supported by the scientific evidence available today. In an article published on the "osint" site, intelnews.org., A medical-scientific demonstration is given that the [...]
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President Nicastri: "The goal is to simplify the management of the pandemic by the government and protect the health of citizens" Info and useful numbers, health advice, rules to follow in terms of prevention, monitoring of travel. Absolute novelty, the latter, at least in Italy, to verify in a moment if we have perhaps come into contact with people infected by [...]
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The Crocerossine d'Italia Onlus Association, founded on the idea of the current President Mila Brachetti in 2014, together with a group of women, is open to all those who share its founding humanitarian values and who look to volunteering as a tool to help more fragile groups in life and in emergencies. Members and Members, [...]
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(John Blackeye) So, at a certain point of a not so cold winter, the news arrives late from China that a lethal virus is infecting the population of Wuhan which for us was an emeritus unknown city but which we understood at our expense, be a large commercial center, with more than eleven million [...]
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Peace, social serenity and security are the founding values of civil society. The geopolitics of security rests its studies on many sectors, but that of disasters is by election. Only by mitigating the effects of disasters are those of national security also mitigated. Thus stated in a statement the former head of state [...]
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“We must absolutely avoid waste of any kind. In recent days I have said not a liter of milk should be spilled. The milk supply chain, like that of farms in general, is among the most exposed. They can't be stopped, animals need daily care. Two problems must be adequately addressed: overproduction and lack of [...]
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In a unique and difficult to understand historical moment, many wonder how to explain to the little ones what is happening. How to explain the limitations and restrictions. It is necessary to enter their world and, therefore, a search made of words and gestures that delicately tells children about the [...]
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(by Vanessa Tomassini correspondent from Tunis) Coronaviruses (CoVs) are a large family of respiratory viruses that can cause mild to moderate illnesses, from the common cold to respiratory syndromes such as MERS (Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome) and SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) . They are so called because of the crown-shaped tips on their [...]
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(John Blackeye) The great Toto could never have imagined such a situation, indeed, perhaps he would have had a laugh. All of Italy closed at home due to a virus, indeed, more so, the whole world closed at home due to a virus. Perhaps he would have invented another poem, a "modern level". He, […]
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(by Rosangela Cesareo - Head of Institutional Relations Aidr) We are at war and it is a world war, it is a pandemic. It is pain, it is anguish, it is fear, it is life changed overnight, without warning. Everyday life, projects, commitments, but above all freedom have changed their meaning. Normality appears to be a utopia, the same as that until a few weeks ago [...]
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(by John Blackeye - Massimiliano D'Elia) Now enough, let's turn the page! Seven hundred deaths a day. The equivalent of a mountain village disappears every day. Yesterday another village and so the day before yesterday. As every evening we look forward to the bulletin issued by the Civil Protection which for days now has only confirmed that the trend of [...]
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Eni: coronavirus, agreement signed with trade unions of service station operators to contain market difficulties and guarantee service continuity Eni has signed an agreement with the trade union organizations of the operators of its service station network to implement a series of measures aimed at containing the market difficulties deriving from the impact of [...]
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According to what is contained in the circular issued by the Ministry of Health, the military, as well as for health workers, will have a preferential lane in the execution of tests with swabs for the control of positivity to the Covid-19 virus. The circular reads: "It is reiterated that in the laboratories authorized for the analysis of swabs, the presentation of related samples [...]
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“We must quickly ensure full implementation of the“ Cura Italia ”decree. It is also a responsibility of the bureaucratic machinery of our country, called to give the best of itself like each of us. Slownesses are not allowed, what in normal times we complain and which goes in these days of absolute emergency cannot [...]
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The clinical trial of Tocilizumab, the drug used up to now in rheumatoid arthritis and which has given improvements in the treatment of pneumonia that complicates Covid 19 infection, started this morning at Pascale. A feared complication that will hopefully be made less serious thanks to the drug, reducing the lethality of the disease. We will work according to the protocol [...]
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“Street vendors must be adequately protected”, the National President, the National Deputy Vice President and the National Secretary of ANA (National Ambulant Association) Ivano Zonetti, Angelo Pavoncello and Marrigo Rosato declared in a joint note. "Although we understand the great effort made with #decretocuraitalia, and we appreciate some measures including the provision of small [...]
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(by Vanessa Tomassini, correspondent from Tunis) The Coronavirus emergency, COVID-19, is experienced differently in the various cities of Libya. In the east of the country, despite strong trade and frequent connections with Egypt, which has already registered over 166 cases and several deaths, the problem is underestimated by most of the population. In the western region, on the contrary, [...]
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Samaritan's Purse donates a field hospital to Italy. The Italian Air Force supports the reception and set-up operations The aircraft, a DC17, which left the United States with personnel (health and logistics) and medical equipment on board landed on Tuesday 21.18 March at 8 pm at the Verona Villafranca airport. available from Samaritan's [...]
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ABI, Fabi, First-Cisl, Fisac-Cgil, Uilca, Unisin Falcri-Silcea-Sinfub have shared a Protocol on measures to prevent, combat and contain the spread of the Covid-19 virus in the banking sector. An important step with which Fabi, First-Cisl, Fisac-Cgil, Uilca, Unisin Falcri-Silcea-Sinfub and ABI intend to ensure that the activities of the banks continue to be carried out with the utmost attention to [...]
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(by John Blackeye) Milan 28 March 1944. British bombing. 18 dead and 45 wounded. Milan 17 March 2020. Coronavirus. More than 200 deaths in a single day. I do not know that during the war, at the time of the bombing of Milan, a huge crowd joyfully appeared on the balconies of other Italian cities, to sing at the top of their lungs [...]
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The numbers and the subdivision of the 25 billion of the #curaItalia decree have finally been disclosed which, according to the forecasts of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, will activate cash flows for 350 billion. 3,5 billion are for Healthcare and Civil Protection, while 10 billion for support for employment, income and workers. [...]
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"#Coronavirus emergency, there are three interconnected risk factors that afflict all countries, from health to economic and social. The country that manages to mitigate risk levels in the best possible way will win the future ”. Thus in an article published by Eurispet.it Magazine, General Pasquale Preziosa, President of the Eurispes Security Observatory, [...]
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The governor of New York has asked US President Donald Trump to mobilize the army to avoid a medical meltdown that will be "worse than what we are seeing in Italy". In an open letter published in the Sunday edition of the New York Times, Governor Andrew Cuomo warned that hospitals in the state of [...]
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More than 100.000 people have been checked in the station by railway police operators since the date of issue of the Prime Minister's Decree for the containment of Coronavirus. Ordinary supervisory activities in the railway sector continued, leading to 9 arrested, 653 under investigation and 61.046 identified. 4.027 patrols engaged [...]
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Thus, in a statement, the National Ambulance Association announced the situation of operators in the sector and the requests made to the Government, following the national emergency caused by the spread of the #coronavirus epidemic. "In the days when Italy is at a standstill to combat the Coronavirus contagion, we must take note that the trade sector that has [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) "Scholars have been warning decision makers for years: 'Pandemics are real threats to humanity" but decision makers are always found unprepared and people do not follow them ". Thus wrote in an article published by Eurispes, Pasquale Preziosa former head of the Italian Air Force and today President of the Observatory on Security. To resume [...]
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The Israeli Institute for Biological Research is reportedly about to give the news expected by the whole world, “the development of a vaccine against the coronavirus has been completed. The news is reported by the Israeli newspaper "Haaretz", citing medical sources, according to which the researchers were able to identify the biological mechanism and the qualities of the virus, including a [...]
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The Pentagon will close its doors, starting Monday, to all unofficial visitors and restrict entry to international guests and large groups of people, this is just the latest in a series of restrictions that will apply to military personnel and on access to US bases throughout the country. Last night the Department [...]
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COVID-19 a virus that can also be fought with the mind The manifestations of solidarity and invitations to reflect are multiplying to give the right value to the mystery meaning of life. The initiative of a group of psychologists who made their professionalism available by offering a free service that, through media channels [...]
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(by John Blackeye) We had already understood for years that Italy had become a Chinese colony and that we had put the reins of the world in our hands, this was also a well-known fact. We also remember that before the arrival of the epidemic the Italian government had started to set up an information campaign and [...]
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"Scholars have been warning decision makers for years: 'Pandemics are real threats to humanity" but decision makers are always found unprepared and people do not follow them ". So wrote in an article published by Eurispes, Pasquale Preziosa formerly head of the Italian Air Force and today President of the Observatory on Security. "What is systematically surprising - he specifies [...]
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Since the first days of the Covid - 19 emergency, the Armed Force has made men, women, vehicles and infrastructures available throughout the national territory. The professionalism, the spirit of sacrifice and the commitment that in every circumstance have always characterized the soldiers of the Army, have been put at the service of the “Country System”. Already in early February [...]
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Hundreds of people recovered from the new coronavirus. Many spontaneously. Others have also received drug treatments. So are there any drugs that are able to counteract the proliferation of the virus in infected patients? Or were only drugs active on symptoms used and healing was spontaneous as for the others? The Italian Society of Pharmacology (Sif), through [...]
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"The personal protective equipment provided to the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Vibo Valentia to deal with the contagion emergency are insufficient and inadequate", declares Lia Staropoli, President of the Association "ConDivisa - Security and Justice", in a note. "The women and men of the Arma have always been at the forefront, in this period they are particularly exposed to the high [...]
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(by John Black Eye) Confirmed cases of #coronavirus in Africa are on the rise, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO / WHO), infections have multiplied in Egypt, while the first cases have been registered in Togo, Cameroon , Nigeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, French Guiana, Senegal and the South. The cases recorded in Africa are probably the peak of [...]
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US intelligence agencies are using "a wide range" of tools, ranging from open source information gathering to interception of communications and "humint", to collect all data on the spread of the coronavirus. At the end of last week, the most reliable information on the spread of the virus, known as COVID-19, came only [...]
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A communication from the Ministry of Health of Egypt reported that there is a patient infected with the new Wuhan coronavirus. He is a foreign citizen, but his nationality has not yet been specified. Local media speak of a 33-year-old Chinese. The arrival of the coronavirus in Africa complicates the situation because the systems [...]
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