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Added on the 12/03/2020 10:41:54 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Images from a deserted Piazza di Spagna as Italy's death toll tops 10,000 despite a 16-day lockdown. Its toll from the past three days alone reached 2,520 -- higher than the total number of deaths in the United States and France. Italy now looks certain to extend its economically debilitating -- and emotionally stressful -- ban on public gatherings and business closures past the April 3 deadline. IMAGES
The usually very touristic area surrounding Rome's colosseum is empty as the Italian government signed off on strict quarantine measures to fight the spread of the new coronavirus. IMAGES of an empty colosseum
Italians walk without masks in Rome as the whole country becomes a "low-risk" zone for Covid-19, marking a dramatic milestone for the first European country to be hit by the global pandemic in February 2020. IMAGES
Restaurants on Campo de' Fiori square in Rome reopen, as an easing of coronavirus restrictions means they are permitted to serve customers during the day. Sixteen regions are now under the lower-risk "yellow" category, while five -- Sicily, Sardinia and Puglia in the south, Umbria in the centre and South Tyrol in the north -- are still "orange." IMAGES
A van carrying the first batch of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine arrives at Rome's Spallanzani hospital where medical staff will get innoculated from Sunday. The vaccine will be dispatched into other regions from Italy from the hospital. IMAGES
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