In the first Italian town hit by Covid five years ago, a lasting trauma and an entire generation lost
- Posted on February 10, 2025
- By Le Monde
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In the first Italian town hit by Covid five years ago, a lasting trauma and an entire generation lost
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On February 21, 2020, Codogno, the small Lombardy town of 15,000 inhabitants and nine neighboring municipalities, suddenly became Europe's first region to go into lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic.