Italy’s death toll from the coronavirus outbreak has now surpassed China with more than 600 deaths and 6,000 reported cases. And on Tuesday, Australian radio star Kate Langbroek, who lives with her family in Bologna (Northern Italy), pleaded for Australians to take social distancing seriously. Kate, 54, appeared on Seven’s Sunrise to encourage the public to stay home … Read more
Kate Langbroek and her family have been in lockdown in Bologna, Italy, for two weeks as coronavirus spreads across the country. And on Saturday, the 54-year-old radio host shared a bittersweet photo to Instagram of a local trattoria that had been forced to close due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Kate told her followers it was … Read more
A newly married couple wearing surgical masks shared a kiss to celebrate their special day in Naples – but there was no confetti nor crowds of cheering guests. Instead, Diego Fernandes , 46 and Deni Salgado, 30, held their wedding ceremony today with only witnesses since public gatherings are banned as part of Italy’s lockdown … Read more
Italy’s coronavirus outbreak may be so devastating because it has such an old population and the elderly come into frequent contact with the young. A study by the University of Oxford has suggested that multiple generations living under the same roofs ‘accelerated’ the spread of the virus in rural Italy. More than 31,000 people have been … Read more
Doctors on the front line of Italy’s coronavirus outbreak have described ‘catastrophic’ scenes in hospitals which are creaking with the sheer volume of cases. They tell of critically ill patients who should be in intensive care but are instead slumped in busy wards because of a woeful lack of equipment and staff. Worryingly, the doctors … Read more
Kate Langbroek and her family are living in Bologna, which has become a ghost city amid Italy’s deadly coronavirus outbreak that has killed 463 people. On Tuesday, the 54-year-old radio presenter hilariously compared Italy and Australia’s reaction to the disease – but said she ‘has faith’ in the European nation. Speaking on The Project via webcam, Kate … Read more
Britons in Italy’s locked-down coronavirus zones are ‘free to return home or complete their holiday’, says UK Foreign Office – despite Italians being threatened with JAIL if they travel to the south of their country British tourists in northern Italy ‘free to return home or complete their holiday’ Nationals will not be met by anyone … Read more
A quarter of Italy’s population has been put under lockdown in a desperate bit to stop the spread of coronavirus. The killer disease has gripped Italy where the number of cases rose by 1,247 in the last 24 hours – its biggest daily increase in cases since the outbreak began – taking the total to 5,883. … Read more
Italy is best known for its picture-perfect cities, stunning lakes, incredible mountains and beautiful coastline. But its fairy tale-like forests are just as spellbinding- as these jaw-dropping images show. They were all snapped in enchanting woodland areas across Italy throughout the seasons and entered into the 2019 Experience Forests photo contest run by the Italian … Read more
The choice of Matera as 2019’s European City of Culture will have astonished Italians of a certain age, although not those who have ever visited it. Fifty years ago, the city was designated the ‘national shame’ of Italy, embodying everything that was wrong with the impoverished south. But it was not true then and is little more … Read more