Young professionals cut ahead of older Italians for vaccine
FRANCES D EMILIO and COLLEEN BARRY, Associated Press
April 3, 2021
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1of11FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 2, 2021 file photo elderly people wait for the COVID-19 vaccine at the Don Orione rest home in Rome. In some Italian region lawyers, magistrates, professors and other younger professionals got vaccinated against COVID-19 before octogenarians despite government pledges of prioritizing Italy’s oldest citizens.Alessandra Tarantino/APShow MoreShow Less
2of11FILE - In this Wednesday, March 31, 2021 file photo Italy s special COVID-19 commissioner General Francesco Paolo Figliuolo, left, talks with Lombardy region President Attilio Fontana, after visiting COVID-19 vaccination hubs, in Milan, Italy. In some Italian region lawyers, magistrates, professors and other younger professionals got vaccinated against COVID-19 before octogenarians despite government pledges of prioritizing It
Pandemic sets back Italian women s long fight for jobs
FRANCES D EMILIO, Associated Press
March 15, 2021
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1of7Tour guide Laura Taddeo poses for a portrait in front of the Vatican, Thursday, March 4, 2021. One of hundreds of thousands of women in Italy who lost jobs in the pandemic, Taddeo has a masters degree in tourism, speaks fluent English and Spanish and some Arabic, too. Her contract as a tour operator with a high-end Italian hotel company expired in May 2020, just as COVID-19 travel restrictions were crippling tourism, and it wasn’t renewed.Alessandra Tarantino/APShow MoreShow Less
2of7Daniela Magnanti poses in front of the Santa Severa castle, Friday, March 5, 2021 where she has a part-time work at the check-in desk of a hotel that opened in the castle. Worldwide, working women paid a high price during the pandemic as many quit jobs to care for children when schools closed. But Italy s women went into the crisis already struggling for
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1of20FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, file photo, medical transporter Adrian Parrilla moves a patient into a COVID-19 unit at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, Calif. There are 3,250 people hospitalized statewide, a drop of more than 85% since peaking around 22,000 in early January, the state Department of Public Health reported Saturday, March 13, 2021.Jae C. Hong/APShow MoreShow Less
2of20People stroll in the Navigli popular area Milan, Italy, Saturday, March 13, 2021. From Monday most of Northern Italy will become red zone with stricter rules aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19, which is skyrocketing due to the variants. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)Claudio Furlan/APShow MoreShow Less
The Latest: All Duke University undergrads must quarantine
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1of20FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, file photo, medical transporter Adrian Parrilla moves a patient into a COVID-19 unit at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, Calif. There are 3,250 people hospitalized statewide, a drop of more than 85% since peaking around 22,000 in early January, the state Department of Public Health reported Saturday, March 13, 2021.Jae C. Hong/APShow MoreShow Less
2of20People stroll in the Navigli popular area Milan, Italy, Saturday, March 13, 2021. From Monday most of Northern Italy will become red zone with stricter rules aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19, which is skyrocketing due to the variants. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)Claudio Furlan/APShow MoreShow Less