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The new surge of infections around Europe is a chilling reminder for some of when Covid-19 first struck. Over the past few weeks we've revisited the continent's 'ground zeros' to find the hardest-hit towns, villages and communities now scarred forever...
In the Italian town of Nembro - perhaps the worst-hit in the world - there was no grand reopening after lockdown was lifted, @biagiosimonetta and @NickSquires1 report https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/27/death-haunts-abandoned-shops-nembro-italys-worst-hit-town/
In the French city of Mulhouse shame and ostracisation now haunts the 'super-spreading' church blamed for the county's epidemic, reports @H_E_Samuel https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/28/church-blamed-frances-coronavirus-epidemic/
Spain's 'ground zero' was its network care homes where thousands were abandoned to die alone. But the heroic efforts of staff at one home has helped ignite a fierce debate about treatment of the elderly, reports @jpfbadcock https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/30/chink-light-spains-care-home-catastrophe/
And we end on a positive note with a a lesson on how to do Covid-19. Germany's ground zero could have been like Italy's save for the country's accidental saviour, reports @justinhuggler https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/29/local-council-official-stopped-coronavirus-germany/
