The story of the two-year-old boy lost in the woods near his home in the Mugello mountains, outside Florence, and found two days later by rescuers is a story with a happy ending, but it is a story that has also opened a debate on where the law should be pushed to legislate on parental control over sons.
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From June 28 in the white zones in Italy is no longer mandatory to wear a mask outdoors. After the research of the Scientific Technical Committee, the confirmation comes from the Italian Minister of Health Roberto Speranza: “The obligation will be overcome, always in compliance with the precautionary indications of the CTS”
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IHP, Italian Horse Protection, the first Italian association for the protection of horses, today launched a petition on the Change.org platform to collect signatures in support of the proposed abolition of horse-drawn carriages for tourist use, advanced to the Municipality of Florence. The initiative comes following the accident which took place on June 14 when a carriage collided with two parked cars in Piazza Signoria, including that of the Italian Minister of the Interior.
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A free region, Tuscany enters the white zone from Monday June 21. The numbers of the positive cases confirm this decision, today (June 18) there were 66 positives cases. Here is what you can do when Tuscany enters the white zone.
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Moments of fear in Piazza della Signoria, Florence, for a runaway horse that launched into a gallop, dragging a carriage behind it that crashed into a car escorted by the Minister of the Interior, Luciana Lamorgese.
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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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