Coronavirus conversations: Italy’s return to lockdown

With Italy returning to lockdown just over a year after the first one there was announced – we’ve been speaking with Italian parents to hear how they are coping and what has changed from their first lockdown to now.

Germany and France has also seen figures shoot up. We speak to our Europe correspondent about the resurgence in coronavirus cases in the continent and about a row over Covid vaccine supplies between the European Union and the UK.

Our coronavirus expert, Dr Manfred Green in Israel, explains the latest trial that has found the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine highly effective against stopping asymptomatic Covid and at preventing serious disease.

And we look at the devastating floods in Australia where thousands of people have been evacuated across the New South Wales with more heavy rain forecast.

(Photo: Piazza Navona during the new lockdown for emergency of the Coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic in Rome, Italy, 15 March 2021. Credit: EPA/ANGELO CARCONI)