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On 25 March, Italy, together with Belgium, France, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Slovenia, and Spain, sent a joint letter to the Council of the EU, calling for the issuing of a new common debt instrument, nicknamed in the media as "eurobond" or "corona bond", to help funding the measures taken against the COVID-19 pandemic and the ...
Italian government data, in its annual report for 2019, estimated the number of foreign nationals residing within Italy, including immigrants, at about 5.234 million. [3] Due to such large-scale immigration to the country, particularly from the early 2000s to 2014, the population peaked at 60.79 million.
The statistics thus include patients with pre-existing conditions, [1] which made up 96% of the total death count. [2] However, in regions where the healthcare system was overwhelmed by the pandemic (e.g. Lombardy), data suggests that the official death statistics likely missed a portion of the deaths outside hospitals.
In Italy, it had reached 28% of cases on 20 December and was doubling every two days, [341] while it became the dominant variant in Norway on 25 December. [342] In France, it made up about 15% of COVID-19 cases in December, but around 27 December it had increased to more than 60%.
Italy was the first European country to experience a major outbreak in early 2020, becoming the first country worldwide to introduce a national lockdown. [4] By 13 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Europe the epicentre of the pandemic [5] [6] and it remained so until the WHO announced it was overtaken by South America on ...
The Omicron variant, known as lineage B.1.1.529, was declared a variant of concern by the World Health Organization on 26 November 2021. [202] The variant has a large number of mutations, of which some are concerning. Some evidence shows that this variant has an increased risk of reinfection. Studies are underway to evaluate the exact impact on ...
One of them, called KP.2, has become the most commonly circulating variant in the United States over the past month, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Italy has reported 534 new deaths, bringing the death toll to 24,648. Italy has reported over 180,000 cases and almost 49,000 recovered people. [233] In Japan, a crew member aboard Costa Atlantica in Nagasaki tested positive for the coronavirus. About 20 others are also down with a fever. [235] Lebanon has reported a total of 677 cases and 21 ...