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On 20 February a doctor at a hospital in northern Italy attended to a patient with severe respiratory failure. It turned out to be the first recorded case of Covid-19 in Europe.

In the weeks that followed, parts of the Italian healthcare system would become overwhelmed, the country would go into lockdown, and the rest of Europe would follow suit.

The doctors and nurses at Lodi Hospital were the first outside of Asia to face the pandemic.

This is the story of how they were thrown into crisis. And how they emerged on the other side.

International Editor Gabriel Gatehouse reports.