'I will get up': a hard new year greets a world in waiting
>> Jason Horowitz, The New York Times Published: 06 Jan 2021 11:56 AM BdST Updated: 06 Jan 2021 11:56 AM BdST An almost-deserted canal-side strip of bars and restaurants in the Navigli neighbourhood of Milan, Jan 5, 2020. Around the globe, people who held on in hopes that 2021 would banish a year of horror are struggling with the reality that the hardest challenges may lie ahead. (Alessandro Grassani/The New York Times). At midnight on New Year’s Eve, Stefania Giardoni popped a bottle of prosecco and bid good riddance to 2020, when she was hospitalised for months with the coronavirus...