'Wiped off the map': tiny Italian villages cower from Covid threat
by Lorenzo Tondo in Roccafiorita from on (#5A3NN)
Coronavirus potentially poses a threat to the very existence of places such as Roccafiorita in Sicily
When the mayor of Roccafiorita received a phone call in October informing him that an employee in his office had tested positive for Covid-19, his heart sank.
Set among the forests at the foot of Mount Kalfa, Roccafiorita is the smallest village in southern Italy. The average age of its 187 inhabitants is over 60. If Covid were to spread among the population, the village could disappear.
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