ANSA – Coronavirus, un anno di pandemia – LO SPECIALE Con la positività al virus del paziente 1 di Codogno e con i 55 italiani rientrati da Wuhan, una città della Cina che allora sembrava lontana. E con la coppia di turisti cinesi ricoverati a Roma

Codogno, restaurato il murale con la Wonder Woman anti Covid, 2 febbraio 2021. ANSA/MAZZA

AP – With heavy hearts, Italians mark year of COVID-19 outbreak

CODOGNO, Italy (AP) — With wreath-laying ceremonies, tree plantings and church services, Italians on Sunday marked one year since their country experienced its first known COVID-19 death.

Birds fly over the San Biagio church in Codogno, northern Italy, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. Italians are marking one year since their country experienced the first known locally transmitted COVID-19 case in the West. With church services Sunday and wreath-laying ceremonies, including in small northern towns which were the first to be hard-hit by the pandemic, residents paid tribute to the dead. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Buzzfeednews – It’s Been One Year Since This Photographer Started Documenting Italy’s Response To Its First COVID Case

Photographer Matteo de Mayda captured this Italian town as it went from being a red zone to one of the healthiest places in Italy.


Nasal swabs were used to test all 3,100 citizens of the town; such a thorough investigation of an entire population was unprecedented. Matteo De Mayda