In a little village perched in the hills of Northeastern Italy, something rather unexpected is happening.

An 82 year old woman was there with her carer.

She said, I've really come to help the scientists

to understand what's going on.

The first place to lockdown in Europe,

this little community was sealed off

from the outside world when it was struck by one of the earliest outbreaks of coronavirus

and now it's at the center of a remarkable scientific experiment.

They thought, look, this gives us an extraordinary opportunity to actually track how the disease

works, how it moves through a population.

You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times.

I'm Manveen Rana.

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