Two months that shook Lombardy

May 12, 2020

The first case of the coronavirus infection in Italy was identified on February 20 at the hospital of Codogno, in the province of Lodi. Within two weeks, the whole country was subjected to some of the toughest quarantine measures taken outside of China. Today, after two challenging months of sacrifice and loss, and with the most critical stage of the emergency behind us, more and more people are starting to look for answers. Tens of thousands of children and grandchildren were not able to say goodbye to their loved ones who died in intensive care wards, at home or in nursing homes. They are now wondering whether everything possible was done to save them. Nowhere are these questions more pressing than in Lombardy, the richest and most populous region of the country and the one that was hit first and hardest by the epidemic.

ilPost is the online newspaper I read every day: it is wonderfully written, doesn't indulge in low-quality-high-clicks news and is well made as a whole.
Many times in the past I wished the articles they had put together were written in English to allow me to share them here. Today, I finally can with a deep and well crafted report on what COVID-19 has done to Italy's richest and most populous region, one that, by population, is bigger than quite a few european states.

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