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Rome, Italy's top health official said on Monday the nationwide <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> lockdown in place since March 10 would be extended until "at least" April 12, nine days beyond its original deadline. Minister of <keyword id="8982695" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="health-roberto-speranza">Health Roberto Speranza</keyword> told reporters Monday that the decision had been made earlier on Monday during the meeting of the <keyword id="26362" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Government">government</keyword>'s high-level Technical and Scientific Committee, Xinhua news agency reported. "The evaluation was made to extend all containment measures until at least" April 12, Speranza said. "The government will take these steps." A day earlier, Prime Minister <keyword id="6566369" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="giuseppe-conte">Giuseppe Conte</keyword> told Italians to prepare themselves for a "very long lockdown" that would be lifted gradually as the intensity of the outbreak in Italy weakens. Italy was the first industrialized western country to issue a peacetime lockdown when it was announced on March 9. Under the terms of the lockdown, Italians are required to stay home aside from performing certain "vital" tasks, such as food shopping, medical visits, or trips to the pharmacy. Since Italy's move to shut down the country, several other countries in Europe and some states in the United States have followed suit. The rules governing the lockdown have been tightened several times since March 9, and there has been widespread speculation it would be extended beyond the original April 3 deadline. In Italy, April 12 is Easter Sunday, a major religious holiday that would under normal circumstances be the cause of church gatherings and packed restaurants. On Monday, Italian health officials announced the total number of people in the country infected by the outbreak topped 100,000 for the first time. More than 11,500 people in Italy have died of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. See Also - <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/helpline-numbers-for-coronavirus-cases-in-india-state-wise/articleshow/74725332.cms">India Helpline number for Coronavirus cases</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/coronavirus-cases-in-haryana-news-and-updates/articleshow/74771116.cms">Coronavirus cases in Haryana news and updates</a>

Italy extends lockdown as deaths hit 11,500

The <keyword id="54656" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="indian-embassy" source="Orion">Indian Embassy</keyword> in Rome said on Friday that the country has recognised the <keyword id="9617748" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="covishield" source="Orion">Covishield</keyword> vaccine and people who have received the jab are now eligible for a <keyword id="9276440" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="green-pass" source="Orion">Green Pass</keyword>. With <keyword id="21474" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="italy" source="Orion">Italy</keyword>'s recognition, a total 19 European Union (EU) nations have given their go-ahead to Covishield. This is the outcome of a G20 Health Ministers meeting between Union Health Minister <keyword id="2607815" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="mansukh-mandaviya" source="Orion">Mansukh Mandaviya</keyword> and his Italian counterpart Roberto Speranza, the Embassy said in a tweet. "Indian vaccine CardHolders are now eligible for the Green Pass," it added Prior to this, Italy had recognised Comirnaty - Pfizer, Moderna, Vaxzervria - AstraZeneca, and <keyword id="92247" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="johnson-johnson" source="Orion">Johnson &amp; Johnson</keyword> vaccines as valid. The other 18 EU nations that have recognised the Covishield vaccine are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. Meanwhile, the vaccine row with the UK continues as it has recognised the jab but a 10-day quarantine has been made mandatory which will come into the effect from October 4. Terming the present UK travel restrictions as discrimatory, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said that "we have the right to reciprocate in the same manner". However, the British High Commissioner to India Alex Ellis said that Covishield vaccine is not a problem and the UK is open to travel. "We're clear Covishield is not a problem. The UK is open to travel and we're already seeing a lot of people going from India to the UK, be it tourists, business people or students". SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/environment/news/heres-how-researchers-are-considering-fly-ash-recycled-phones-and-slag-to-lower-global-carbon-emissions-from-cement/articleshow/86477965.cms">Here’s how researchers are considering fly ash, recycled phones and slag to lower global carbon emissions from cement</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/bharat-bandh-called-by-dmk-on-september-27-to-protect-the-rights-of-the-farming-community/articleshow/86474697.cms">Bharat Bandh called by DMK on September 27 to 'protect the rights of the farming community'</a>

After UK and US, Italy also gives green pass to Covishield vaccine

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11905554" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="italy" source="Orion">Italy</keyword> could hold a referendum on voluntary <keyword id="11974606" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="euthanasia" source="Orion">euthanasia</keyword> after a <keyword id="11974609" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="petition" source="Orion">petition</keyword> gained over 750,000 signatures.</li><li>"Just as I have the right to treatment, I have the right to end my suffering," a spinal-injury patient said.</li><li>The Vatican opposes the move, calling <keyword id="11974608" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="assisted-suicide" source="Orion">assisted suicide</keyword> an "intrinsically evil act."</li></ul>Italy has become one step closer to holding a referendum on legalizing voluntary euthanasia after a petition in favor gained over 750,000 signatures, <a href="https://www.euronews.com/2021/08/26/italy-moves-closer-to-a-referendum-on-legalising-euthanasia">Euro News</a> reported.Petitions in Italy are required to meet a threshold of 500,000 signatures to trigger a public vote.Voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide are currently illegal in the country.Campaigners have been petitioning to abolish a law that says the homicide of a consenting person should be punished with up to 15 years in jail.In 2019 a constitutional court in Italy added an exception for "patients kept alive by treatment [...] and affected by an incurable disease that causes physical and psychological suffering they find intolerable."Activists say that a successful referendum on assisted suicide would be the first step towards putting forward a bill legalizing voluntary euthanasia, according to <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/248728/euthanasia-in-italy-campaign-for-legal-assisted-suicide-takes-step-forward">Catholic News Agency.</a>Currently, Italian law punishes assisted suicide with a sentence ranging from 5 to 12 years in prison.The movement to legalize voluntary euthanasia gained national traction because of the case of a 43-year-old spinal-injury patient, identified only as Mario, <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-legalizing-assisted-suicide-right-to-die-euthanasia/">POLITICO</a> said.Mario was paralyzed in a car accident ten years ago, and in a letter to Italy's health minister Roberto Speranza, Mario said he lived "in constantly increasing pain." "Just as I have the right to treatment, I have the right to end my suffering," he wrote.Speranza, who leads the left-wing party Article One, said that he favored changing the law and that he hoped parliament "would find a consensus," POLITICO reported.Although <a href="https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2019/10/01/eutanasia-sondaggio-swg-9-su-10-a-favore-l82-vuole-legge-sulla-fecondazione-il-65-vuole-togliere-il-divieto-di-ricerca-su-embrioni/5490019/">polls</a> suggest that as many as 9 in 10 Italians back the legalization of euthanasia, the move has faced fierce opposition from conservative religious figures in the country.Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia has called euthanasia <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/248728/euthanasia-in-italy-campaign-for-legal-assisted-suicide-takes-step-forward">a "form of eugenics,"</a> and the Vatican previously said euthanasia is an <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/45917/vatican-reaffirms-euthanasia-is-intrinsically-evil-act-calls-catholics-to-accompany-the-dying">"intrinsically evil act."</a>Instead of legalizing voluntary euthanasia, she said more should be done to improve palliative care and treat depression and loneliness.Voluntary euthanasia, where a doctor deliberately administers fatal drugs to a patient, is currently legal in several European countries, including Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.Spain became the fifth European country to legalize it in March of this year.Estimates suggest that up to 50 Italians travel to right-to-die clinics in Switzerland every year, according to POLITICO.

Italy could hold a referendum on voluntary euthanasia after a petition collected more than 750,000 signatures

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A survey by the Italian government suggests 2.5% of <keyword id="21474" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Italy">Italy</keyword>'s population has <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> <keyword id="102007" type="TECHNOLOGY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Antibodies">antibodies</keyword>, or nearly 1.5 million people.</li><li>That total is six times the confirmed <keyword id="8763838" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19">COVID-19</keyword> tally of just under 250,000 cases.</li><li>Nearly a third of those carrying the antibodies were asymptomatic, the survey suggested.</li></ul>Just under 250,000 Italians have had confirmed cases of COVID-19, but a new survey released Monday suggests the actual tally is six times the official count.Almost 1.5 million people (1.48 million), or 2.5% of the population, likely have coronavirus antibodies, according to the survey by Italy's health ministry and statistics agency, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy/italy-survey-suggests-coronavirus-six-times-more-prevalent-than-official-data-idUSKCN24Z2IC">Reuters reported</a>. That finding is based on testing of 64,660 people between May 25 and July 15. Of those tested, 27.3% were asymptomatic. Tests were done in partnership with the Italian Red Cross.In 41.7% of the cases, the source of infection was a relative living in the same home, <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-08-03-20-intl/h_4b0f71a89f81f128fcda77b8042eb2f0">CNN noted</a>. There were significant regional differences in the results, with the northern region of Lombardy reporting a 7.5% infection rate while the islands of Sicily and Sardinia reported just 0.3%."This means that the tough and rigorous measure adopted by the central and regional governments, and the correct behavior of the Italian people, avoided a more massive spread of the virus," health minister Roberto Speranza said at a <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news">news</keyword> conference, per CNN.

Survey suggests 2.5% of Italians have COVID-19 antibodies, which would be 6 times more than the official count of cases

New York, Apr 6 (AP) Americans braced for what the nation's top doctor warned Sunday would be "the hardest and saddest week" of their lives while Britain assumed the unwelcome mantle of deadliest coronavirus hot spot in Europe after a record 24-hour jump in deaths that surpassed even hard-hit Italy's.Britain's own prime minister, Boris Johnson, was hospitalized, 10 days after testing positive for COVID-19 in what his office described as a "precautionary step." Amid the dire news, there were also glimmers of hope some hard-hit areas - the number of people dying appeared to be slowing in New York City, Spain and Italy. The news was cautiously welcomed by leaders, who also noted that any gains could easily be reversed if people did not continue to adhere to strict lockdowns.US Surgeon General Jerome Adams offered a stark warning about the expected wave of virus deaths."This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment,'' he told "Fox News Sunday." But President Donald Trump later suggested the hard weeks ahead could foretell the turning of a corner. "We're starting to see light at the end of the tunnel," Trump said at an evening White House briefing.In New York City, the U.S. epicenter of the pandemic, daily deaths dropped slightly, along with intensive care admissions and the number of patients who needed breathing tubes inserted, but New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned it was "too early to tell" the significance of those numbers.Italy and Spain also got some encouraging news. Italy registered its lowest day-to-day increase in deaths in more than two weeks - 525, said Angelo Borrelli, the head of the national Civil Protection agency. The pace of infection also seemed to be slowing.Even so, Borrelli warned, "This good news shouldn't make us drop our guard." Confirmed infections fell in Spain, too, and new deaths declined for the third straight day, dropping to 674 - the first time daily deaths have fallen below 800 in the past week.The outlook, however, was bleak in Britain, which reported more than 600 deaths Sunday, surpassing Italy's increase. Italy still has, by far, the world's highest coronavirus death toll - almost 16,000.In a rare televised address, Queen Elizabeth II appealed to Britons to rise the occasion, while acknowledging enormous disruptions, grief and financial difficulties."I hope in the years to come, everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge," she said. "And those who come after us will say that the Britons of this generation were as strong as any." Johnson, meanwhile, has been hospitalized, though his office said it was not an emergency and that the 55-year-old Conservative will undergo tests.There are concerns that Johnson's government did not take the virus seriously enough at first and that spring weather will tempt Britons and others to break social distancing rules.Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the U.K. might even ban outdoor exercise if people still ''flout the rules.'' "The vast majority of people are following the public health advice, which is absolutely critical, and staying at home," Hancock told Sky TV. "But there are a small minority of people who are still not doing that - it's quite unbelievable, frankly, to see that." As the numbers of infections rose, Saffron Cordery, the deputy head of Britain's National Health Service Providers, said the agency needed to focus on quickly increasing ventilator capacity and getting more protective equipment for health care workers.Italians have not been immune to lure of the good weather, either. Top Italian officials took to national television after photos were published showing huge crowds out shopping.Health Minister Roberto Speranza told RAI state television that all the sacrifices Italians have made since the nationwide lockdown began risked being reversed.Restrictions on movement vary from country to country, state to state, locality to locality.(AP) AMSAMS

Americans brace for 'hardest, saddest' week of their lives

Associated PressA worker sprays disinfectant at the Suseo Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, on February 25, 2020.<ul class="summary-list"><li>The coronavirus outbreak that originated in China has spread to at least 40 other countries. South Korea, Italy, and Iran have seen a dramatic spike in cases.</li><li>More than 50 deaths have been reported outside of mainland China.</li><li>Health experts say this is a critical week to contain the spread of the virus.</li><li>For the latest case total and death toll, see <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-virus-everything-we-know-deadly-2019-ncov-wuhan-spread-2020-1">Business Insider's live updates here</a>.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>For a few weeks in February, it seemed the coronavirus outbreak had passed its apex. The World Health Organization said on Monday that the epidemic had peaked and plateaued in China between January 23 and February 2, and a recent study found that the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-illness-symptoms-peak-decline-china-2020-2">largest number of Chinese patients were showing symptoms</a> on February 1.But over the last few days, the epidemic has taken a worrisome turn: The number of cases outside of mainland China more than doubled in just four days, jumping from around 1,150 on Friday to more than 2,600 on Tuesday.More than 1,200 people are now infected in South Korea, and 12 have died. Italy has confirmed 11 deaths and a case total of 322. Iran, meanwhile, has nearly 140 cases, but 19 people have died. "There now are a number of countries where the virus has been introduced and there clearly was some spread," William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, told Business Insider on Tuesday. "Those countries are still trying to contain it, but we're not certain how successful they're going to be."Schaffner said he's much more nervous this week than last. "There's no numerical definition of a pandemic - like beauty, it's in the eye of the beholder," he said. "I think we're right on the edge of it."<h2>Drastic upticks in South Korea, Italy, and Iran</h2>On Sunday, South Korean president Moon Jae-in said the country faced "a grave turning point" in its efforts to contain the outbreak.A few days earlier, a 61-year-old member of a controversial fringe religious group - the Shincheonji Church of Jesus - was reported to have spread the virus to dozens of other worshippers. More than half of the coronavirus patients in South Korea were either members of that church or had contact with a member as of Monday. The New York Times reported that worshippers at the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony, where the 61-year-old woman had attended an event, were <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/world/asia/south-korea-coronavirus-shincheonji.html">forbidden to wear face masks</a>.Chung Sung-Jun/Getty ImagesWorkers in protective gear spray an anti-septic solution to fight the coronavirus in a subway station in Seoul, South Korea, on February 21, 2020.Italian authorities, meanwhile, have struggled to find "patient zero" there. The country's case total skyrocketed over the weekend; only three cases has been confirmed there as of Friday. Most of the Italian patients are in the northern region of Lombardy, which is home to Milan. Italy has banned public events in 10 municipalities, closed public buildings, and restricted transport in the northern region."We are asking basically that everyone who has come from areas stricken by the epidemic to remain under a mandatory house stay," Italy's health minister, Roberto Speranza, said in a press conference on Saturday.While Iran has <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/coronavirus-china-live-updates/2020/02/25/f4045570-5758-11ea-9000-f3cffee23036_story.html">reported fewer cases than in Italy or South Korea</a>, many health experts think the full case count there is higher than the official total so far, given the death count. Iran now has the highest number of coronavirus deaths outside of China.At least five Middle Eastern countries - Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, and Oman - have <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/coronavirus-middle-east-200225124248535.html">linked their own infections</a> to travelers from Iran. Over the weekend, several other Middle Eastern countries - including Afghanistan, Armenia, Pakistan, and Turkey - restricted travel to and from Iran.<h2>'This is a critical week'</h2>Despite the climbing number of international coronavirus cases, around 97% of the more than 80,000 total cases are in China. The World Health Organization has thus far <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-19-coronavirus-has-pandemic-potential-says-who-2020-2">hesitated to call the virus a pandemic</a>, since the designation also takes into account the severity of illnesses caused by a virus. A <a href="http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/e53946e2-c6c4-41e9-9a9b-fea8db1a8f51">recent study from the Chinese Center for Disease Control</a> found that around 80% of cases have been mild.Still, the coronavirus has spread to 40 other countries and killed more than 2,800 people in total.A pandemic refers to a virus that has escaped its origin country, been introduced to a number of others, and is spreading in those nations in a sustained fashion. An epidemic, by contrast, is more regionally contained."It's clear that the virus has escaped to other countries," Schaffner said. "It has been introduced and it has spread, but it's not clear that it is spreading in a sustained fashion."But that might not be the case for long."This is a critical week," Schaffner said. "We could change our mind within days." Richard Martinello, an associate professor of infectious disease at the Yale School of Medicine, told Business Insider on Tuesday that the number of countries with cases of the virus was still "relatively limited.""Of course, as the days have gone on over the last week or two, we've seen that list actually grow quite a bit," he added. "At some point, it won't be surprising if we're seeing transmission here in the United States."The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday that the outbreak will likely spread to more communities in the US, and that Americans should "prepare for the expectation that this might be bad."CDC officials said that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-government-travel-warnings-for-coronavirus-outbreak-2020-2">any travelers returning from China, South Korea, Italy, Japan, or Iran</a> who develop a fever, cough, or shortness of breath should seek medical help and self-isolate. <h2>Travel could still fuel the spread of the virus </h2>The spread of the virus to other countries "was always very, very likely," Schaffner said."Many of the countries bordering China did not put in an absolute travel ban," he added. "South Korea is now paying the price for that."<a href="http://www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/Hungary-China-Virus-Outbreak/f3c972a54b4a41e481cf8e06763b8ad9/28/0">Zsolt CzeglÃ©di/MTI / AP</a>Airport staff check the temperatures of passengers returning from Milan as part of the coronavirus screening procedure at the Debrecen airport, Hungary, February 25, 2020.South Korea <a href="http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20200202000194">issued a travel ban</a> for all foreign nationals who had visited China's Hubei province in the prior two weeks on February 2. A few days earlier, more than half a million South Koreans <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-reaction-southkorea/south-koreans-call-in-petition-for-chinese-to-be-barred-over-virus-idUSKBN1ZR0QJ">signed a petition</a> calling for a ban on all Chinese visitors. But such policies may have come too late, Martinello said."This virus has already circulated so widely that, at best, travel bans may slow things down a little," he said. "Without real draconian measures, it's essentially impossible to prevent further spread of this."At the moment, he added, people shouldn't refrain from traveling internationally. But the risk of contracting the virus while traveling, he said, is "not zero and it is increasing with time.""We are losing the ability to focus on just one country," Martinello said. "As we see further spread of this virus, it does increase the risk that those who are traveling internationally may be in contact with somebody who is connecting from some other country where they may have picked this up."<h2>The outbreak can still be contained, but time is running out</h2>Last week, the World Health Organization warned that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-window-narrowing-to-stop-global-spread-coronavirus-covid-19-2020-2">the window of opportunity to contain the outbreak</a> was narrowing. Associated PressA health worker wears protective suit at the infectious disease clinic in Zagreb, Croatia, where the nation's first coronavirus patient is hospitalized on February 25, 2020.Schaffner said countries might now want to consider testing people who have recently returned from hotspots outside of China. "Suppose they've come back from Italy, particularly northern Italy - I would open the door to that testing," he said.But travelers from countries like Spain, which have only reported a handful cases, wouldn't require a test, he added.Although there's some evidence that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-asymptomatic-transmission-chinese-woman-relatives-2020-2">the virus can be transmitted when patients aren't showing symptoms</a>, Schaffner said doctors shouldn't be too concerned about identifying asymptomatic patients. "The more frequent that phenomenon is, the more difficult it is to control it. But there's nothing we can do about it," he said. "So forget about it. Work on what you can deal with." <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/whats-inside-kangaroo-turtle-shell-2020-02">What's inside these 8 unique creatures</a></h3>

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