Italy has performed the world’s first heart transplants from COVID-positive donors to virus-negative recipients in Bologna and Rome. A 15-year-old boy received a new heart at Rome’s Bambino Gesù Hospital at mid-May and a 64-year-old man got a new heart at Bologna’s Sant’Orsola Hospital at the end of April.
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Most part of Italy are set to be classed as low COVID-19 risk white zone since June 14, 2021.
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The hospital Santa Maria Annunziata (Ponte a Niccheri) remains the only Covid hospital in the Florentine area. Yesterday afternoon the department of Covid at the San Giovanni di Dio hospital (Torregalli) has closed.
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From Monday June 7 the curfew will be at midnight in all Italy, as decided by the Italian government.
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A Coop shopping mall in Ponte a Greve, in the outskirts of Florence, was evacuated after the roof caught fire on Thursday June 3, 2021.
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In Italy 36 million doses of the vaccine have been administered and according to the Undersecretary for Health Andrea Costa by the end of July, it will be possible to remove the masks outdoors.
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From June 1, 2021, in restaurants throughout Italy you can finally have lunch and dinner, not only in the outdoor spaces but also indoor. It is also possible to eat at tables without a limited number of people.
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Tuscany’s COVID-19 cases falls further. On Saturday 29 May and Sunday 30 May in Tuscany there are open days where it is possible to have the first dose of vaccine without a reservation or medical prescription.
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In all Coop.Fi supermarkets it is possible to buy the rapid antigenic Covid 19 self-diagnostic kit. Unicoop Firenze currently has 104 stores Coop.Fi in Tuscany.
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Italian ballet great Carla Fracci has died. The queen of Italian dance would have turned 85 in August. Fracci became one of the most experienced and recognized interpreters of Romantic ballets.
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