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Where to find the latest Covid-19 information for your region of Italy

With each Italian region allowed to tighten emergency Covid-19 measures, restrictions can vary significantly across Italy. Here's where to find the latest rules where you are.

Published: 26 October 2020 16:07 CET
Updated: 7 January 2021 15:40 CET
Where to find the latest Covid-19 information for your region of Italy
Many of Italy's Covid-19 rules are different from region to region. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP

As well as their official websites, several regions have created dedicated coronavirus portals where you can find daily case numbers as well as the ordinances that declare the local prevention measures in place.

READ ALSO: The form you need to go out at night under Italy’s national curfew

Each region provides regular updates on the rule changes via their social media, and almost all of them have a Covid-19 phone line where you should be able to speak to an operator in English.

Below you’ll find resources for each of Italy’s 20 regions.

Abruzzo

Basilicata

Calabria

Campania


Naples, the biggest city in Campania. Photo: Carlo Hermann/AFP

Emilia-Romagna

Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Lazio

Liguria

Lombardy


Police enforcing the curfew in Milan, Lombardy’s biggest city. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP

Marche

Molise

Piedmont

Puglia

Sardinia

Sicily

Trentino-Alto Adige/South Tyrol

Tuscany

Umbria

Valle D’Aosta

Veneto

Please note that cities and towns may also have their own local ordinances in place on top of national and regional rules. You can check these by going to the website of your local comune.

For non-emergency information and assistance anywhere in Italy, you can also call the national, 24/7 coronavirus helpline on 1500.

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  4. Do you still update the tier map, showing the different colours of the regions? What is the link to this map? Thanxx

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BREXIT

‘We are desperate’: Why the UK must help Britons with Italian healthcare charges

A 74-year-old British woman has explained the "frustration and fear" Britons in Italy are facing when trying to access healthcare and appealed to the UK government for help.

Published: 11 April 2024 09:53 CEST
'We are desperate': Why the UK must help Britons with Italian healthcare charges

Pat Eggleton, a teacher and writer from the UK, appealed to the UK’s Foreign Secretary David Cameron in the letter sent April 9th about the “desperate” situation faced by UK citizens entitled to free healthcare in Italy – but unable to access it.

British nationals residing in Italy before Brexit, and covered by the Withdrawal Agreement (WA), are in many cases being told by Italian health authorities that they must pay steep new fees at a minimum of €2,000 a year – even though they are exempt from paying at all.

READ ALSO: ‘Life or death situation’: Brits facing high Italian healthcare costs amid rule change uncertainty

In her open letter seen by The Local, Ms. Eggleton, who has lived in Italy since 2005, highlighted that the current minimum is a huge jump from the previous €387, and said that the sum was “difficult, or even impossible, for some to find when there had been no prior notification and there is no option to pay in instalments.”

“A great deal of undeserved worry, frustration and even fear has ensued,” she wrote.

“Some of our group have serious, ongoing health conditions. All we require is for one sentence from the Italian government confirming that Withdrawal Agreement beneficiaries do not have to pay for healthcare access to be circulated to all regional health authorities.

“We implore you to act before this becomes even more serious. As someone put it, “This is a matter not only of money, but of health.” 

Ms Eggleton’s letter came exactly one month after the British government confirmed that all WA agreement beneficiaries are exempt from paying the €2,000 fee, provided they were living in Italy before January 1st 2021.

But there were no details available at the time from the Italian government setting out how the rules would be implemented or communicated to local health authorities around Italy.

Since then, there has been no further information released by the Italian government on any official platform. 

One Withdrawal Agreement beneficiary, Graham Beresford, told The Local last week how he was having trouble accessing healthcare, even though he has a right to it.

Mr. Beresford suffers from blood cancer and needs access to the Italian healthcare system to obtain his medication. 

“Every time I go to my ASL (local health unit) office, I always feel like I’m dismissed,” Graham said. “I told the ASL worker I need medication for my cancer and she replied lots of people come in here with sob stories.

“There genuinely seems to be no compassion whatsoever.”

The Local has written to the Italian health ministry for comment.

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