The secrets of Mattia, the first Covid-19 patient in Italy

By Giampaolo Visetti (La Repubblica)

“The past two months have been very trying. The situation that I experienced is difficult to imagine and has nothing to do with what you can see in the movies. I suddenly fell ill, came close to death and got up. My wife and mother were also infected, but are now healed. This unknown virus killed my father. And we welcomed Giulia, our first daughter. I learned to resist and believe in the difference between trust and utopia, to consider each moment of normalcy as essential. Life and death touch each day silently around us without our being able to notice it. “

Mattia Maestri returns for the first time to these days that forever changed the world and its existence. He talks to us from the front door of his Codogno home: not inside, to guarantee the safety of his wife Valentina and little Giulia, who came into the world