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Italys pandemic survivors, one year later CBSNews © CBS News nembro-italy-1280.jpg At a nursing home in northern Italy, they were playing a memory-boosting game when correspondent Seth Doane visited this past week. But no one wants to remember a year ago, when 40 percent of the residents died from the coronavirus in a month. Replay Video UP NEXT Today, those in the facility have been vaccinated, and family visits have resumed, with precautions. Due to fears from COVID varia...

In March 2020, the main hospital in Bergamo in the Lombardy region of Italy became the European epi-centre for an unfolding pandemic. In some places around Bergamo, COVID-19 took more lives in three weeks than in the whole of 2019. This heavy death toll has left many scars still visible to this day. Matteo Cella has been a priest for 10 years in Nembro, one of Bergamos hardest-hit municipalities. Between March and April 2020 almost 2% of the population there died. Father Cellas evening services...