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Serie A has announced it intends to resume competition on June 13, with Italy’s top-flight clubs set to return to group training from Monday.

Inter Milan’s entire first team squad have given negative results in testing for the coronavirus, the Serie A club said on Friday as they prepared to resume training.

Argentine international forward Paulo Dybala first revealed his COVID-19 diagnosis in mid-March, but has since tested positive for the virus a total of four times in the past six weeks, according to reports.

Serie A sides will be allowed to return to individual training on May 4 and team training on May 18 after Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte revealed the first stages in lifting the country’s coronavirus lockdown.

AS Roma have announced that their players and coaching staff will forgo four months salaries to ease the financial strain on the club due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Italy’s football federation hopes that players can be tested for the new coronavirus at the start of May to prepare for the season to restart, its president Gabriele Gravina has said.

The United States on Saturday surpassed Italy for most fatalities from the new coronavirus of any country, according to Johns Hopkins University.

US President Donald Trump ordered his government to give support to coronavirus-hit Italy, in a memorandum published late on Friday.

In Italy, the death toll among doctors from COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus, reached the grim milestone of 100 on Thursday.

The number of cases of coronavirus in Italy is probably 10 times higher than the official tally of almost 64,000, the head of the agency that is collating the data said on Tuesday.

Fatality rate across the globe since the outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the Chinese town of Wuhan on December 31, 2019 has signalled that this is not the best of times for humanity. With about 8,988 deaths and 220,877 people infected in 176 countries since the first death was recorded in China on January 11, 2020, the pandemic has boisterously announced its immensity.

Italy’s death toll from the coronavirus outbreak has risen to 3,405, surpassing the 3,245 fatalities reported in China.

The Federal Government has announced the cancellation of already issued visas for travellers from 13 countries as part of measures to contain the pandemic Coronavirus.

The Federal Government has placed a ban on travel by public servants to countries highly affected by COVID-19 pandemic disease.

Juventus and France midfielder Blaise Matuidi has tested positive for the coronavirus, the Turin-based Serie A club said in a statement.

Italy’s national tally of cases of novel coronavirus contagion has increased to 31,506, with 2,503 deaths, the Civil Protection Agency says in its daily bulletin on Tuesday.

The Federal Government is to commence secondary screening at points of entry for travellers from eight high risk countries with widespread community transmission to prevent the spread of  COVID-19 in the country.

Juventus is reportedly preparing a new deal for Cristiano Ronaldo which would keep him at the club until beyond his 39th birthday.

Streets across Europe were quiet on Sunday as lockdowns aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus prompted countries to tighten borders and people to avoid public spaces.

Italy faced an unprecedented lockdown on Tuesday that left streets in the capital Rome and other cities deserted after the government extended a clampdown across the entire country in a bid to slow Europe’s worst outbreak of the coronavirus.