Day: 2 April 2022

Status update of Covid-19 cases worldwide

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Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of April 2, 2022, at 5:20pm EST.

On Saturday, health officials in Germany logged 128,639 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 21.5 million. Of the cumulative total number of cases 78.2% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, authorities have reported 187 Covid-related deaths for a total of 130,529 fatalities attributable to Covid-19.

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Italiani all’estero, un webinar sui progetti della Commissione VII del CGIE

PALERMO – Il 9 aprile si svolgeranno, nei Paesi con maggior presenza dei nostri connazionali all’estero, le elezioni per il rinnovo del Consiglio Generale degli Italiani all’Estero (CGIE): in vista della fine del proprio mandato, la Commissione VII invita la cittadinanza ad un webinar conclusivo delle proprie attività (https://fb.me/e/7sQjH7Fni) in programma domenica 3 aprile alle ore 21 (ora italiana) a Palermo. 

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Italian and Indigenous cuisine together: interview with Theresa Contois (and the Native’s recipe for bison stew)

VANCOUVER – A “culinary” bridge between the Italian and Indigenous communities: the idea comes from Apci Canada, the Professional Association of Italian Chefs chaired by Chef Giovanni Trigona, an Italian in Vancouver, British Columbia, who is currently launching a collaboration with fellow Chef Theresa Contois, a Native of the Long Plain First Nation in Manitoba. A friendship destined to lay the foundations for a series of initiatives that will see the collaboration of Italian and Native chefs for the first time in history (in the pic above, Giovanni and Theresa). 

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