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Italy is battling another wave of coronavirus and is tightening restrictions again. Schools and non-essential businesses have been forced to close across more than half the country, including the two biggest regions around Rome and Milan, as the 大象传媒's Mark Lowen explains. Also in the programme, with obesity believed to be a major factor in which countries have the worst Covid-19 death rates, the 大象传媒's Manuela Saragosa reports on whether it could mark a moment of reckoning for food and beverage businesses, in terms of making their products more healthy. Plus, the shortlist for this year鈥檚 Oscars has been released. Georg Szalai is international business editor at The Hollywood Reporter, and tells us what this year's selection says about the impact of the pandemic on filmmaking, and progress made towards diversity in the industry.

(Picture: Near empty streets around the Colosseum in Rome. Picture credit: Getty Images.)