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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.

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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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Which are Italy’s best hospitals and where are they?

Italy’s healthcare system is said to be among the best in the world, but stark regional differences persist. Here’s where you’ll find the country’s most highly-rated hospitals.

Published: 3 March 2023 15:05 CET
Updated: 14 March 2023 09:51 CET
Which are Italy’s best hospitals and where are they?

The average standard of healthcare in Italy is fairly high: the country has been ranked among the nations with the best healthcare systems in the world in surveys published by the World Health Organisation, Bloomberg and Statista.

But not all of Italy’s hospitals – or regional healthcare systems – are rated equally. A new World’s Best Hospitals ranking from Newsweek and global data firm Statista has revealed which of Italy’s hospitals are seen as the best.

The study ranked Rome’s Policlinico Gemelli as the best hospital in the country for the third year in a row, followed by Ospedale Niguarda and Ospedale San Raffaele in Milan.

The top five was completed by Policlinico Sant’Orsola in Bologna and the Istituto Humanitas in Rozzano, just south of Milan.

Spots from six to ten are occupied by: Policlinico San Matteo in Pavia, Azienda Ospedaliera in Padua, Ospedale Borgo Trento in Verona, Ospedale Papa Giovanni II in Bergamo and Turin’s Presidio Ospedaliero Molinette.

READ ALSO: Five essential facts about Italy’s public healthcare system

But aside from Rome’s Policlinico Gemelli, no hospital from the centre or south of the country figured in the top ten, with the first ‘non-northern’ hospital – Florence’s Ospedale Careggi – ranking 13th.

In fact, only three southern hospitals made it into the nation’s top 50, with the first one – Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza in San Giovanni Rotondo, Puglia – coming in 33rd.

These results seem to once again confirm the stark imbalances in the quality of medical services offered across the country, with central and southern regions continuing to perform poorly compared to their northern counterparts. 

You can read more about the issue and its causes HERE. 

Shifting from a national outlook to an international one, Italian hospitals didn’t fare quite as well as could be hoped.

The top five Italian hospitals all figured among the best 100 hospitals in the world, though only Rome’s Policlinico Gemelli made it into the top 50 (it came in 38th, to be exact).

However, Italy still had a total of 13 hospitals included in the world’s top 250 list, which made it the third most-represented European country in the ranking after Germany (25) and France (16).

Statista assessed the performance of over 2,300 hospitals around the world, basing its ranking upon a combination of the following four data sources: the opinion of over 80,000 healthcare professionals, patient experience surveys following hospitalisation, publicly available hospital quality metrics, and patient perception questionnaires. 

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