Italy

"The news about the hospital in Mariupol occupied by Russian troops, about the staff and patients taken hostage and used as human shields fills us with sadness but also with indignation"

European non-emergency number 116117, a document that aims to examine the actions taken by the Italian Ministry of Health to implement the provisions of Decision 2007/116/EC of the European Commission, to harmonise the various existing…

Covid, record number of deaths in Italy in the fourth wave: 360 deaths in the last 24 hours

Italy, increase in hospitalisations and deaths from Covid: "further surge of new cases that have exceeded 1.2 million, an increase of almost 50% compared to the previous week"

Record number of cases in Italy: 220,532 new cases tested positive for Covid-19 (yesterday there were 101,762) and 294 deaths (yesterday 227). This is what emerges from today's bulletin from the Ministry of Health

The Ministry of Health and the Civil Protection have released official data on the spread of Covid in Italy: the Omicron variant seems to be continuing its ability to be highly diffusible

The proportion of the omicron variant is growing strongly in Italy. An estimate based on the preliminary analysis of swabs collected for the rapid survey of 20 December could be around 28%, but with strong regional variability

Voluntary associations are emergency system vital element, and of the health system in general. We met Garda Emergenza, a voluntary association based in Lonato sul Garda

Firefighters worked through the night amidst the rubble in Ravanusa, a small town in the province of Agrigento, where last night an explosion caused by a gas leak destroyed a four-storey building and seriously damaged three other adjacent…

Covid in Italy: independent monitoring by the Gimbe Foundation shows an increase in new cases (86,412 vs 69,060, i.e. +25.1%) and an increase in deaths (498 vs 437, i.e. +14%, of which 14 related to previous periods) in the week 24-30…