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A group of people who set up a Facebook group to share memories of relatives who died from coronavirus in northern Italy, have urged the European Commission to investigate the government's handling of the emergency.

"Noi Denunceremo" - meaning "We will denounce" - lodged 100 new cases to be investigated. The group, which has over 60,000 members, is trying to establish whether there was a deliberate decision to delay locking-down three economically productive towns, resulting in more deaths as the virus spread.

Stefano Fusco lost his grandfather to the virus and is a co-founder of the "Noi Denunceremo" group.

Photo: The ER ward at the hospital at Codogno, the Lombardy town first hit by the coronavirus emergency, reopened in June. Credit: EPA.