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Italy enters Easter lockdown

03/04/2021 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Italy enters Easter lockdown

Italy has faced a resurgence of coronavirus infections

Italy has faced a resurgence of coronavirus infections.

This evening, Pope Francis will celebrate the Easter Vigil in a near-empty St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. That is because Italy has become the latest country to re-introduce stringent national lockdown measures over the Easter period. The country has reported more than 110,000 Covid-related deaths, Europe's second-highest tally after the UK.

Also in the programme: More on an insurgency on Myanmar's border with Thailand; and we find out how plants have made a major contribution to human history.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other stories are Barnaby Phillips, former BBC and Al Jazeera correspondent, who is now with the Elephant Protection Initiative; and Noga Tarnopolsky, a journalist in Jerusalem who writes on the Middle East for the US media.

(Picture: Soldiers carry out checks on passengers at the Central railway station in Milan, Italy. Credit: EPA/Paolo Salmoirago)

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