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The leader of Italy’s Lega party has raged against a double standard whereby Italian citizens are getting “fines and lockdowns” whereas illegal immigrants get “open ports.”

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcement that England will be placed under a second national lockdown was met with fury and derision in some quarters, with some going so far to call for his resignation.

California’s health department urged Californians to replace “traditional trick-or-treating” on Halloween with a “household candy hunt.”

The French people have been told not to leave home except for essential purchases, medical needs, and one hour a day of exercise.

Christian pastors and activists claim CA officials target people of faith with severe coronavirus restrictions for churches, faith-based events.

“If I listened totally to the scientists, we would right now have a country that would be in a massive depression,” Trump said.

ROME (AP) — Americans may love Naples for its most famous export, pizza. But the governor of Italy’s southern region had choice words for the exported American holiday of Halloween as Naples buckles under surging coronavirus infections.

Medical experts are urging the adoption of “focused protection” to replace current coronavirus lockdown policies that, they say, have produced nothing less than “devastating effects on short and long-term public health.”

“What would a Biden administration do in January and February that a Trump administration wouldn’t do? Would you impose new lockdowns for businesses and schools in hotspots? A federal mandate to wear masks?” asked debate moderator Susan Page.

President Trump said at the presidential debate that Democrats shutting down states has had disasterous effects, especially in New York.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) has launched an investigation into Unlock Michigan after the group reached its goal of 500,000 signatures in its effort to repeal a 1945 law Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) has been using to keep the state in perpetual lockdown.

Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, has employed arguments from bioethics to assert that the state has no right to enforce months-long lockdowns in response to an epidemic such as the coronavirus.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said the UK must reject a second national lockdown, warning of a “complete and utter catastrophe” if Prime Minister Boris Johnson implements another. 

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said on Thursday that Joe Biden’s (D) pro-lockdown policies will “not play well” in Florida.

Unlock Michigan has nearly reached its goal of 500,000 signatures in an attempt to repeal the governor’s powers that are maintaining the ongoing coronavirus lockdown.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced he will furlough himself and his entire staff on Wednesday, in the midst of a $9 billion loss in revenue.

Pope Francis urged protesters Sunday to conduct their demonstrations in a peaceful way while calling on governments to listen to legitimate griefs being aired.

The Vatican has issued a letter to the world’s bishops urging the resumption of public Sunday Masses, stressing that “it is necessary and urgent to return to the normality of Christian life.”

The mayor of the Italian town of Sutri north of Rome has decreed fines for wearing masks except when required by law, insisting that “only thieves and terrorists wear masks.”

The lockdowns established to counter the spread of the coronavirus have pushed 100 million more people into “extreme poverty,” Vatican News announced Saturday.

A Michigan citizens group warned on Wednesday that the tracking of sex offenders is on hold until Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ends her ongoing coronavirus state of emergency.

In a stunning power grab by the British government, local councils are set to be empowered with the authority to demolish buildings that are deemed to be epicentres of Chinese coronavirus outbreaks throughout the country.

“It’s important that all Americans recognize that a permanent lockdown is not a viable path toward producing the result that you want, or certainly not a viable path forward,” Trump said, adding that long term lockdowns would inflict more harm than good.

An emergency room doctor joined her colleagues for Monday’s “White Coat Summit” in Washington, DC, saying that we are “not overwhelming the health care system.”

Gangs loyal to socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s regime in Venezuela were filmed handing out brutal punishments to individuals violating the nationwide quarantine imposed as a preventative measure against the spread of the Chinese coronavirus. 

The coronavirus lockdowns are fueling a surge in the number of drug overdoses across the country, one of the Democrats who competed against Joe Biden for the party’s presidential nomination recently acknowledged.

A Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) has sharply criticised Scotland’s left-separatist devolved government for allowing pubs to open ahead of places of worship as the country emerges from its coronavirus lockdown.

Pope Francis had sharp words last weekend for “disobedient” priests who continued saying public Mass for the faithful and hearing confessions during the coronavirus lockdown, accusing them of behaving like “adolescents.”

The once-potent coronavirus “has gone from being a tiger to a pussy cat,” according to Dr. Matteo Bassetti, director of Infectious Diseases at the San Martino Hospital in Genoa.

Pope Francis pointed to silver linings of the coronavirus lockdowns Sunday, noting that forcing people to stay home and not work has diminished traffic, noise levels, and air pollution.

An Ohio barbecue restaurant located just across the border from Pennsylvania trolled Gov. Tom Wolf, naming him the restaurant’s “employee of the month” for bringing so much business to the place over the past few weeks.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) is asking the state’s Supreme Court to intervene following the legislature’s move to override his emergency order and, as a result, the corresponding restrictions.

Reports of child abuse in Uganda have spiked since lockdowns were imposed to curb the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus, according to local Catholic relief workers.

After weeks of scrutiny over his controversial lockdown orders and restrictions, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) is losing Democrats as bipartisan majorities in both chambers of the state’s legislature passed a resolution ending his emergency declaration spurred by the coronavirus.

The percentage of Minnesota residents who have been tested for the novel coronavirus and have tested positive since the beginning of the pandemic has declined dramatically over the past two weeks, from 10.4 percent on Sunday May 24 to 8.1 percent on Sunday, June 7.

Coronavirus patients without symptoms, or asymptomatic patients, are not the ones spreading the virus, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) announced Monday.