Fear, isolation cloaks town at centre of Italy’s coronavirus outbreak

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The streets are silent, shops are shuttered and the few people who venture from their homes shun company in the small Italian town of Codogno under the shadow of a new coronavirus outbreak.

Codogno in the Lombardy region was labelled by health officials on Saturday as the epicentre of the new wave of confirmed cases in Italy’s north

Italy became the first European country to report the death of one of its own nationals from the virus on Friday, followed by a second death on Saturday, amid a sudden rise in confirmed cases of contamination now totalling 79. Italian authorities have imposed travel restrictions on about a dozen towns, where special permission will be needed to enter or leave.

She said protective masks had long sold out but customers were stocking up on disinfectants, alcohol and bleach.One woman ventured out to buy drinks and snacks from one of the few vending machines in the town.

 

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