The province of La Spezia and several municipalities in Liguria on Wednesday decreed the suspension of in-person lessons Thursday in secondary schools following the orange hydrological weather alert for storms issued by the Ligurian Regional Agency for Environmental Protection (Arpal). The decree issued in La Spezia was signed by the president of the province Pierluigi Peracchini, "to reduce the risk to students during the alert". Source: Ansa News Agency