At virus milestone, Italian priest reflects on loss, lessons
(WorldNews Europe)

SERIATE, Italy (AP) — If there is anything the Rev. Mario Carminati and the traumatized residents of Italy`s Bergamo province remember about the worst days of the coronavirus outbreak, it`s the wail of ambulance sirens piercing the silence of lockdown. Around the clock for weeks on end, ambulances screamed through Bergamo`s valleys and towns in a terrifying soundtrack of death, as mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers gasping for air were rushed to the hospital. Thousands never came back. As the world counts more than 1 million COVID-19 victims, the quiet of everyday life and hum of industry has returned to Bergamo, which along with the surrounding Lombardy region was the one-time epicenter...