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Waiters wait for customers outside a restaurant next to the Pantheon, in Rome, Thursday, March 5, 2020. Italy closed all schools and universities and barred fans from all sporting events for the next few weeks, as governments trying to curb the spread of the coronavirus around the world resorted to increasingly sweeping measures that transformed the way people work, shop, pray and amuse themselves. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Waiters wait for customers outside a restaurant next to the Pantheon, in Rome, Thursday, March 5, 2020. Italy closed all schools and universities and barred fans from all sporting events for the next few weeks, as governments trying to curb the spread of the coronavirus around the world resorted to increasingly sweeping measures that transformed the way people work, shop, pray and amuse themselves. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

March 5, 2020

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Virus, what virus? Italy's "nonni" step in as schools close
March 5, 2020 11:56 a.m.

Virus, what virus? Italy's "nonni" step in as schools close

ROME (AP) — Italian grandparents — “nonni” as they are called — were pulled in two contradictory directions on Thursday — and as usual the grandchildren won out.