Governments around the world enacted unprecedented measures to support firms impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. This column focuses on Italy to examine the extent to which these measures ended up also benefitting non-viable but still active firms. The authors find that ‘zombie firms’ were less likely than healthy firms to access public support measures in the form of either
As of Sunday, people won’t need a mask to visit grocery stores and other retailers. Masks also won’t be required in the workplace or public offices but are recommended. Companies can still mandate them, however.
Italy's government decided Wednesday to ease several anti-Covid restrictions, including for schools, as Prime Minister Mario Draghi promised to "continue to advance on this path of reopening".
Restrictions imposed to contain the Covid-19 pandemic have begun to be lifted in many European countries, two years after the arrival of the coronavirus in.