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MAP: Where are coronavirus rules strictest across Italy?

On top of nationwide restrictions, each region of Italy has the power to tighten its local Covid-19 restrictions. This map shows where the rules are strictest.

MAP: Where are coronavirus rules strictest across Italy?
Naples in Campania is subject to some of Italy's toughest Covid-19 restrictions. Photo: Carlo Hermann/AFP

All regions of Italy have to follow the national measures ordered in the latest emergency decree, which include early closing for bars and restaurants, mostly online lessons for high schoolers, a ban on parties and mandatory face masks everywhere in public.

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But some regions have also opted to impose their own restrictions locally, ranging from nighttime curfews to a ban on leaving your own province except for essentials.

Others have ordered schools to go entirely remote instead of just 75 percent as required by national rules.

This map gives a snapshot of the different restrictions across the country.

The region with the strictest measures is Campania, where residents are not allowed to leave their own province of residence except for work, health or other necessities.

The region has also ordered both primary and secondary schools, as well as universities, to conduct all teaching online until at least the end of October.

A nightly curfew is in place from 11pm to 5am, takeaway restaurants have to close by 10:30 pm, and even jogging is restricted to between the hours of 6 and 8:30 am (in city centres, public parks, seafronts and other crowded areas).

READ ALSO: How Italy's regions are tightening Covid-19 restrictions

The neighbouring region of Calabria has followed in closing schools – though only secondary – and universities, and declared a curfew between midnight and 5 am.

Sicily has also moved high schools online and imposed a curfew from 11pm to 5am.

In the north Lombardy has adopted similar measures, although schools have been given slightly more time to go remote.

Two other regions, Lazio and Piedmont, have set curfews, as has the autonomous province of Bolzano (Alto Adige/South Tyrol).

Meanwhile Abruzzo has closed high schools and universities until further notice.

In all other regions of Italy the nationwide rules apply, with minor variations. Here's where to find the latest rules in force where you are.

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Italy records first ‘indigenous’ case of dengue fever in 2024

Italian health authorities said on Thursday they recorded the first 'indigenous' case of dengue fever for 2024 after a patient who had not travelled abroad tested positive.

Italy records first 'indigenous' case of dengue fever in 2024

“The person who tested positive for dengue fever is in good clinical condition,” the provincial health authority of Brescia, northern Italy, said in a statement on Thursday.

The areas where the patient lived and worked have begun mosquito control measures, including setting mosquito traps, the agency said.

The head of the epidemiology department at Genoa’s San Martino Hospital, Matteo Bassetti, questioned whether it was indeed the first indigenous case of the year, or rather the first recognised one.

“By now, Dengue is an infection that must be clinically considered whenever there are suspicious symptoms, even outside of endemic areas,” Bassetti wrote on social media platform X.

Dengue is a viral disease causing a high fever. In rare cases, it can progress to more serious conditions resulting in severe bleeding.

Deaths are very rare.

An indigenous case means that the person has not recently travelled to regions of the world where the virus, which is transmitted from one person to another by tiger mosquitoes (Aedes albopictus), is widely circulating.

The presence of those mosquitoes have been increasing in several southern European countries, including Italy, France and Spain.

The World Health Organization has said the rise has been partly fuelled by climate change and weather phenomena in which heavy rain, humidity and higher temperatures favour mosquitoes’ reproduction and transmission of the virus.

In 2023, Italy recorded more than 80 indigenous cases, while France had about fifty, according to the WHO.

Cases in which the person is infected abroad number in the hundreds.

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