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The virus gripped italy, suddenly, silently throttling it. The fire that burned through europe was lit here, exporting cases across the world from brazil to britain. We will get the latest on the situation in northern italy with our correspondent mark lowen. Yes, clive, we are just outside the town of codogno, which is the italian epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak. We have been driving around this exclusion zone and the streets have been completely deserted. The police told us earlier that if we went a bit further up this road towards the town we would have to go into quarantine, like the more than 50,000 people across 12 times. People across 12 towns. I covered this story from the beginning. I was in lombardy as the first victims died and towns were sealed off. Now im back on a journey to meet those who bore witness, grieved and want answers. How was one of europes richest regions brought to its knees . It feels like a lifetime ago that we were here last, when coronavirus first st ....