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The COVID-19 pandemic in Italy is part of the ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was first confirmed to have spread to Italy on 31 January 2020, when two Chinese tourists in Rome tested positive for the virus. [ 1 ]
The CIA provided an average of $5 million annually in covert aid to Italy from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. This aid went towards financially supporting centrist Italian governments and using the awarding of contracts to weaken the Italian Communist Party's hold on labor unions.
Deaths statistics for Italy include coronavirus deaths both in and outside of hospitals, and includes individuals tested pre-mortem as well as post-mortem. The statistics do not distinguish between individuals who died "with" or "of" the disease.
The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Timeline. COVID-19 cases in Italy ...
Italy was the first country to implement a national quarantine as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 29 ] Conte announced on 11 March that the lockdown would be tightened, with all commercial and retail businesses except those providing essential services, like grocery stores, food stores, and pharmacies, closed down. [ 30 ]
Italian coalition administrations tended to last just over a year before collapsing, making Italy predictably unpredictable. How Italy’s PM Meloni could bridge the gap between Trump and Europe ...
Italy was the first European nation to experience a major outbreak in early 2020, becoming the first country worldwide to introduce a national lockdown. [317] By 13 March 2020, the WHO declared Europe the epicentre of the pandemic [ 318 ] [ 319 ] and it remained so until the WHO announced it had been overtaken by South America on 22 May. [ 320 ]
The COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Italy is a mass immunization campaign that was put in place by the Italian government in order to respond to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. It started on 27 December 2020, together with most countries in the European Union .