Luca Bruno, Author at Concord Monitor

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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)

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Italy marks anniversary of country’s first known COVID-19 death

by Luca Bruno Associated PressFebruary 21, 2021

CODOGNO, Italy — 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.Towns in Italy’s north were the first to be hard-hit by the pandemic…