Italy recalls first bout with COVID

The World

Today marks five years since the World Health Organization made a big announcement — about COVID-19. The first Western country to go on lockdown was Italy. The whole experience of facing this mysterious new disease so early on took a real toll on Italians. Film producer Francesco Frisari was based in Rome at the time, and he remembers it vividly, as he shared with The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler.

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