‘This is like a war’: view from Italy’s coronavirus frontline

Friends and relatives of those killed by Covid-19 tell of the virus’s devastating impact

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There are the elderly couples who died hours apart and without their families around them. There is the 47-year-old woman who died at home, and who remained there for almost two days because funeral companies refused to collect her body. There are the doctors who lost their lives after assisting their infected patients.

Among the 2,158 people to have been killed by the coronavirus pandemic in Italy as of Monday, the oldest was 95 and the two youngest were 39.

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