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Africa trip off as Italy’s Draghi tests positive for coronavirus

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Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi has contracted the coronavirus. The 74-year-old tested positive but had no symptoms, the Italian government announced on Easter Monday. The prime minister of the multi-party government will therefore not travel to the African countries of Angola and the Republic of Congo this week as planned, it added. Draghi wanted to negotiate with the countries’ governments about gas supplies. Italy wants to wean its energy supply off Russian gas as a reaction to the war in Ukraine. According to the government, Italy will be represented on the trip by Foreign Minister Lui…

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