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Virus Outbreak Italy What Went Wrong

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2020 file photo, people enjoy a sunny day while sitting at a cafe, in Milan, Italy. As Italy prepares to emerge from the West’s first and most extensive coronavirus lockdown, it is increasingly becoming apparent that something went terribly wrong in Lombardy, the hardest-hit region in Europe’s hardest-hit country. Unions and mayors of some of Lombardy’s hardest hit cities say the country’s main industrial lobby group, Confindustria, exerted enormous pressure on authorities to resist lockdowns and production shutdowns on the grounds that the economic cost would be too great in a region responsible for 21% of Italy’s GDP. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, file)

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