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Italy to shut down for three days in Easter from 3-5 April. With a new wave of coronavirus outbreak Italy is shutting down all shops, restaurants and schools.
Italy, imposed one of the first national lockdowns a year ago to contain the spread of the virus.
The country has reported more than 100,000 Covid-related deaths and ranks second- after the UK according to Worldometer.
Italy's vaccination campaign has been delayed, as many European Union countries halted the use of AstraZeneca vaccine.
Anglo-Swedish drug company AstraZeneca announced a shortfall in the amount of its vaccine to supply, blaming export restrictions imposed by some countries.
In January, it announced a large cut down in the 100m doses it had originally expected to deliver to the EU by March, after a dispute with European Commission.
Last week alone the government in Rome blocked the export of 250,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to Australia to address shortfalls of vaccines.
