Italy may be in Easter lockdown, but the party s on at sea
MARIA GRAZIA MURRU, Associated Press
April 2, 2021
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1of32Passengers take selfies on a deck of the MSC Grandiosa cruise ship in Civitavecchia, near Rome, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. MSC Grandiosa, the world s only cruise ship to be operating at the moment, left from Genoa on March 30 and stopped in Civitavecchia near Rome to pick up more passengers and then sail toward Naples, Cagliari, and Malta to be back in Genoa on April 6. For most of the winter, the MSC Grandiosa has been a lonely flag-bearer of the global cruise industry stalled by the pandemic, plying the Mediterranean Sea with seven-night cruises along Italy’s western coast, its major islands and a stop in Malta.Andrew Medichini/APShow MoreShow Less
State s new one-day virus cases highest in almost two months
Jerry Nowicki Capitol News Illinois and David C.L. Bauer Journal-Courier
April 2, 2021
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The state reported on Thursday the highest one-day total of new COVID-19 cases since Feb. 5.
That drove the seven-day rolling average case positivity rate to 3.5%, a high since Feb. 3, as more than 96,000 test results were reported over the previous 24 hours. Another 25 coronavirus-positive Illinoisans were reported to have died over the previous 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 21,326 since the pandemic began.
Hospitalizations also continued to trend upward, with 1,411 hospital beds in use by COVID-19 patients, including 304 intensive care unit beds and 121 ventilators.