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World Service,15 Mar 2021,23 mins
Most of Italy to shut down to tackle rising Covid-19 cases
World Business ReportAvailable for over a year
The entire country will be put on lockdown for three days over the Easter weekend. We hear what this will mean for businesses, and speak to Aurelio Gandola, who runs a bar and restaurant on Lake Como. We also get an update from Brazil, where new Covid-19 infections are at their highest rate. We speak to epidemiologist Dr Pedro Hallal. The music industry's biggest event of the year, the Grammys, get underway this evening in Los Angeles. Our West Coast correspondent Sophie Long has been speaking to the songwriters behind one of the year's biggest hits, BTS's Dynamite. (Picture: St Peter's Square in Rome. Credit: Getty Images)
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