In the first Italian town hit by Covid five years ago, a lasting trauma and an entire generation lost

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In the first Italian town hit by Covid five years ago, a lasting trauma and an entire generation lost

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.