Codogno to resume baseball as normality returns

(ANSA) - MILAN, JUL 2 - Italy's first coronavirus hotspot at Codogno in Lombardy is set to return to normality Saturday as its baseball team faces off against a local rival.
    Mayor Francesco Passerini said the first match of the season against Piacenza "will be the symbol of an Italy that is restarting, of life conquering death".
    The Serie B derby will be played behind closed doors and without spectators.
    "After months with death hovering over us it is a great step forward towards normality," Passerini told ANSA.
    "Baseball in Codogno has a great tradition, and for many people it is a reason for living".
    Codogno, south of Milan, is at the heart of the Italian region which has been hardest hit by the virus, Lombardy.
    The northern region accounts for over half of Italy's almost 35,000 COVID deaths. (ANSA).