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World News - The number of fatalities has dropped for the second day running, but Italy continues to be the country with the highest coronavirus death toll in the world with 10,779...

Italy’s death toll from the coronavirus outbreak rose by 756 to 10,779, the country’s Civil Protection Agency said on Sunday.The figure represents the second successive fall in the daily rate since Friday, when 919 people died in Italy. Saturday’s fatality rate was 889. Italy’s Covid-19 death toll remains by far the highest in the world [accounting for roughly a third of all deaths], followed by Spain which has seen more than 6,500 deaths. A total of 5,217 new cases were reported on Sunday in Italy, down from 5,974 on Saturday.

"Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has asked the public “not to drop their guard” rather than assuming that the virus has passed its peak. Nevertheless, the daily rise in infections has slowed to 5.6 percent - the lowest rate since Italian officials started tracking cases following the first death on February 21".

In the epicentre of the pandemic, the region around Milan where the number of cases previously increased daily, the number of Italians receiving intensive care remained almost unchanged. "We are witnessing a slowdown," University of Milan virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco told the Il Corriere della Sera daily. "It is not plateau yet, but it is a good sign."
Italy closed all of its schools at the start of the month and then began gradually imposing a lockdown, tightening it successively until almost all stores were shut on March 12.

The measures - since adopted to varying degrees across most of Europe - did not prevent Italy's death toll from overtaking that in China, where the disease was first reported, on March 19. And while the lockdown -- which is officially due to end on April 3 - is economically painful, officials appear determined to extend it until the coronavirus is finally stopped in its tracks. Regional affairs minister Francesco Boccia said the question facing the government was not whether it would be extended, but by how long. The measures expiring on April 3 will inevitably be extended," Boccia told Italy's Sky TG24 television.

"I think that, at the moment, talking about re-opening is inappropriate and irresponsible." A final decision is expected to be made at a ministerial meeting in the coming days. Boccia also indicated that the eventual easing of the different confinement measures would be gradual. "We all want to go back to normal," he said. "But we will have to do it by turning on one switch at a time."

In theory, the existing state of national health emergency allows Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to extend the lockdown until July 31. Conte has said that he would like to lift the severest restrictions -- including those forcing the suspension of Italy's Serie A football season -- a few months prior to that....
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World News - In Italy, where the death toll has climbed to 6,820, funerals have been banned for weeks, and many graveyards are closed to prevent grieving families from visiting the tombs of loved ones. The absence of ritual burial breaks something that is deeply ingrained in the human spirit.

In the wee hours of March 19 (Nineteen), a line of 30 (Thirty) military vehicles transported several dozen coffins out of the city of Bergamo, in northern Italy, as the local crematories could not keep up with the pace of people dying from COVID-19. Watching the footage of the heartbreaking procession through the eerily empty highways made me want to cover my ears and scream when my neighbors started singing from their balconies.

It wasn’t just the deaths that bothered me. They are a reality that I, like all other Italians, have been forced to reckon with at least once a day, at 6 p.m., when the authorities update the death toll and the number of the newly infected.

It was the profound sense of loneliness that really affected me — the lack of funerals and communal rituals to commemorate the departed. Many victims of the coronavirus have died without family members being able to say goodbye or to be present when coffins are buried.
In Italy, where the death toll has climbed to 6,820 — making it the country with the most victims — both civil and religious funerals have been banned for weeks, and many graveyards are closed to prevent grieving families from visiting the tombs of loved ones. Upon request, one priest is allowed to give a blessing to the coffin before the burial. Very few mourners are allowed to be present.
Recently, a newspaper in Bergamo drew worldwide attention because a single issue had 10(Ten) full pages of obituaries. When I saw that, I seriously doubted how reasonable it is to keep telling each other “everything is going to be fine,” as we’ve been doing since the country’s lockdown began on March 9 (Nine).
For more than two weeks, the number of dead climbed daily. Almost each day was a new record, until we reached a high of 793 deaths in one day. But the country may have finally turned a corner. As of March 24, we’ve had three consecutive days of decreasing numbers of newly infected. We should feel good — perhaps our lockdown and extreme measures of keeping people apart over the last two and a half weeks has worked. Maybe we’re getting closer to a time when life can go back to normal, although epidemiologists warn that when you begin to flatten the curve, that’s when social distancing needs to be enforced even more tightly. We can’t forget that complacency kills.But I can’t stop thinking about what we lost during those weeks. Thousands of people died alone. And many more family members will forever feel a void. People have died without dignity. Without ceremony. Families have been left without an outlet for mourning.
It’s something that I have worried about: What might happen to my own family if someone should fall ill? A friend confided to me that his greatest fear is that his mother, who lives alone, may get infected and die without him being able to see her for the last time. I was moved when I heard about an 84-year-old priest in a hospital who held his phone next to dying patients to allow their family members to say goodbye.
''Many of the obituaries published in the Bergamo newspaper did not include details regarding burials, as hospital morgues have been overwhelmed with corpses. Coffins are also temporarily stacked inside the cemetery church''.
Corpses cannot even be dressed. They have to be wrapped in a special sanitizing mat and immediately transferred into the caskets, a precaution that is necessary but also dehumanizing. Funeral home workers share pictures and videos of the dead with their families. The most tech-savvy companies are gearing up to broadcast the obsequies. Like almost anything else in the age of the coronavirus, even final farewells will be livestreamed.
There are very obvious sanitary reasons to limit gatherings in which hugs, kisses, and tears abound, and where a high concentration of elderly people is to be expected. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has asked funeral homes to livestream funerals and to limit gatherings to 50 people, while some states, including Massachusetts, have imposed even stricter regulations. But the absence of proper burials may also have an immaterial price, placing an emotional burden on people who won’t be able to properly express their grief.
The absence of ritual burial breaks something that is deeply ingrained in the human spirit. “By severely limiting funerals, we are privileging physical health above everything else, and that will come at a cost,” Dr. William G. Hoy, a professor of medical humanities at Baylor University, told me on a Zoom conference from his office. Hoy “spends a lot of time thinking about death,” as the opening line of his official bio states, and he is concerned about authorities not taking the absence of burials seriously enough.
''To stand on the edge of the abyss and attempt to get some meaning out of it is a fundamental human need. We want to walk through what we cannot talk through'', Hoy said. Commemorative events that might be held when the epidemic is over are not going to solve the “complicated grief” that the absence of funerals tends to generate, he says. In several cultures, people would be willing to risk their own physical health rather than leaving a loved one without a proper funeral. The public dimension of the ceremony is crucial.
“Every living creature on earth dies alone,” goes a memorable line in the 2001 movie “Donnie Darko,” capturing an inescapable truth about the final departure. Death is a door so narrow that only one individual can pass through it at once. Yet death should be the opposite of loneliness. Burial rituals are communal celebrations meant to bring together the bereaved community. The Irish wake vividly encapsulates that.
A lonely death is a dreaded occurrence. In Japanese culture, the term kodokushi describes people dying alone, generally in their own homes, without anyone realizing it for days or weeks.
During the 1918 influenza pandemic, several cities in the United States, including Chicago and Philadelphia, suspended funerals and burial ceremonies to contain the contagion, while gravediggers and carpenters struggled to keep up with the number of people dying. That compounded the pain that families felt, says historian Nancy K. Bristow, a professor at the University of Puget Sound who wrote an account of that tragic outbreak.
The restrictions on public events meant that families and communities had those rites interrupted, so grieving didn’t take place in public but became an individual process, which had long-term consequences,” she said in an interview with history.com. “Without an opportunity to share it with those around them, that grief was carried around for decades.
Because the infection trends in the United States continue to follow Italy’s, it’s possible that you’ll see as many deaths as we have, unless the patchwork of social distancing measures and shelter-in-place restrictions are successful. If the deaths keep rising, I hope you can properly honor the dead, mitigating the profound loneliness that the pandemic has wrought...
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World News - Last week, Italy become the first European country to go into complete lockdown to protect its citizans from a pandemic coronavirus attack. Previously such a scenario was just an academic hypothesis for national security ecperts. Now what Italt is doing can become a model for other counties threatened by the same enemy; COVID -19.
"Italy remains under attack, as shown by the rising number of infection and death due to COVID-19, The battle against the virus is full of unknowns, but there are are three aspects of current emergency that already contain unequivocal lessons".
The first concerns national security. The pandemic caught Italy by surprise, almost like a large~scale terror attack. In schools of war, they teach that you always need to prepare yourself to fight the next conflict. Now we know this can be triggered not by an armed enemy but by a coronavirus. Consequently, hospitals, "medical facilities" health equipment" doctors and nurses are equivalent to our frontline. They have to be considered a trench to defend, consolidate and reinforce. We must then invest in health like we do in security – that means rethinking national budgets to dedicate strategic resources to research, development and training in the medical sector and also to the purchase of materials destined to become crucial supplies.
What this requires of individual democracies as well as of the EU and Nato alliances is to equip themselves urgently with an effective, well-structured and even better funded biosecurity policy. Because the secret of success in resisting pandemic attacks is in the logistics: the more hospitals, beds, specialists, nurses, machinery and medicines there are, the more our collective life is protected. And so we need to coordinate efforts: in Europe for example, Spain, France and Germany are drawing from the Italian experience, adopting similar choices. Other countries further afield are also learning from Italy and closing down before a high number of cases emerge..
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World News - A 61-year-old man from Pakistan has died of novel coronavirus in Italy, the country's Foreign Office said on Wednesday.
"Imtiaz Ahmed, who has become the first Pakistani coronavirus casualty outside the country, had been living in the European country for past few years".
An FO spokesperson said the Pakistani Counsel General office is in contact with Ahmed's family.
In the past 24 hours, Italy recorded the highest toll in a single day since the start of the outbreak in the country, with 168 more people died of COVID-19 infection.
"The whole of Italy - a country of some 60 million people - was placed under quarantine as the government stepped up efforts to tackle the coronavirus outbreak that has killed 631 people and affected more than 10,000".
Globally, more than 4,000 people have died from the coronavirus and over 113,000 cases have been confirmed, according to the World Health Organization [WHO]. About 64,000 people have recovered around the world.
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Paramount Pictures has reportedly delayed production of its anticipated action film "Mission: Impossible VII" starring Tom Cruise in Venice, Italy, as a coronavirus outbreak continues to spread across the country.
As per reports, Italy has more than 150 confirmed cases of coronavirus disease and the local government in Venice has halted public gatherings in response to the threat of coronavirus. The decision from the production house also includes monitoring the situation going further.
A statement reads: Out of an abundance of caution for the safety and well-being of our cast and crew, and efforts of the local Venetian government to halt public gatherings in response to the threat of coronavirus, we are altering the production plan for our three-week shoot in Venice, the scheduled first leg of an extensive production for ‘Mission: Impossible 7, Paramount said. "During this hiatus, we want to be mindful of the concerns of the crew and are allowing them to return home until production starts. We will continue to monitor this situation, and work alongside health and government officials as it evolves.
Tom Cruise is set to return as secret agent Ethan Hunt for two more Mission: Impossible movies. 
 The seventh film arrives in theatres on July 232021, while an eighth instalment will hit cinemas on August 52022.
Christopher McQuarrie is on board to direct both films. He previously directed 2015's Rogue Nation and 2018's Fallout, which was the best performer of the franchise with $791.1 million globally.
Paramount Pictures has also announced that it will be delaying the release of Sonic the Hedgehog in China due to the coronavirus. 
In a statement, the film company said: ""Sonic will only be slowing down his pace temporarily, and we look forward to bringing him zooming onto the big screen in China once it is appropriate to do so.""
The coronavirus has infected 79000 people worldwide according to CBS News killing more than 2,400--nearly all the deaths were in China..
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