Smoking within a 10m distance of other people is no longer permitted in Milano, particularly in the city's parks and green spaces, sports and recreational grounds, children's play areas, stadiums and cemeteries. Milano is now the first Italian city to introduce such an extensive outdoor ban, part of a package of measures to improve air quality and combat climate change. Municipal councillor Marco Granelli says the ban's aim is twofold - to help reduce dangerous fine particles in the air known as PM10 and protect citizens' health. Cigarette smoke accounts for 8% of the city's PM10. Also France 24, Euronews and the Irish public television RTE have devoted coverage to Milano's smoking ban.

Statale, Poli, Bocconi: last week, Milano's universities were cited in international media for the quality of their research on post-covid scenarios. In particular, Science has ranked Milano State University (colloquially known as la Statale) as fifth in the world for medical and pharmacological research on SARS-CoV-2, only surpassed by two academic institutions of Wuhan, Huazhong University and Tongji Medical College, Harvard University, and INSERM, the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research. The studies made by the researchers of Statale concern the evolution of the virus and the immune response it triggers, the development of specific drugs with the aim of treating the virus and slow down the pandemic, to the immediate benefit of the inhabitants of Milan, the first metropolis in Europe which had to deal with the Covid-19 epidemic.

Luca Martinazzoli, general manager of Milano & Partners, is interviewed by Interni, one of Italy's main design and architecture magazines. He explains how he and his team decided to narrate the city during the pandemic withYesMilano. Martinazzoli, a brilliant mind whose approach to urban marketing helped make Milan one of Europe's top tourist destinations in recent years, reflects on the future of the global city and its neighborhoods after Covid. What is needed is a new vision of public space, based on ecological and digital transformation, something which Milano is embracing, as the city returns fully cosmopolitan this fall, with the Fuorisalone Design Week and the G20 on Health scheduled for September 2021.