Italy recalls first bout with COVID
by editors@theworld.org (Omar Duwaji) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6VVNM)
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.