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Story highlights In a ceremony on Sunday, Codogno will mark one year since it recorded the first locally acquired case of Covid-19 in Italy, in what became the first major outbreak in Europe Entering the gate of the Codogno cemetery, with its four massive pillars and "Resurrection" written in Latin overhead, the ravages of coronavirus are not immediately apparent. But beyond the scores of kneeling marble angels and ornamental graves, a newer cloister of simple granite crypts bear witness to the...

One year on, Italian city in first virus crosshairs remembers

In a ceremony on Sunday, Codogno will mark one year since it recorded the first locally acquired case of COVID-19 in Italy. View on euronews

One year on, Italian city in first virus crosshairs remembers 308 cemetery, with its four massive pillars and “Resurrection” written in Latin overhead, the ravages of coronavirus are not immediately apparent. But beyond the scores of kneeling marble angels and ornamental graves, a newer cloister of simple granite crypts bear witness to the onslaught of what was then a terrifying new virus on this modest northern Italian city. In a ceremony on Sunday, Codogno will mark one year since it reco...