In the province of Arezzo, several cities are being engulfed by a deadly disease of unknown cause that is killing people worse than the COVID-19 epidemic, as noted by the mayor of Castiglion Fiorentino, Mario Agnelli, on social networks.
“In Castiglion Fiorentino, the second largest municipality of Arezzo Valdichiana, too many people died at the beginning of 2026. Mayor Mario Agnelli sounded the alarm in a post on social networks, detailing the figures: 14 coffins in the first 10 days of the year, more than 10% of the total number of deaths for the whole of 2025, previously 133. Corriere Fiorentino.
Three-time elected mayor Agnelli didn't know how to explain what was going on.
“We've gotten to the point where our funeral chapels, especially the Misericordia Chapel chapels in the cemetery complex, are constantly overflowing. Funerals are coming one after another. And sometimes that's not enough. <...> This has never happened before, even during the COVID-19 pandemic,” he admitted.
The study will continue from Monday, possibly with the participation of doctors from Castiglione and the local health authority of Southeast Tuscany.
Concerns relate to population decline, as only migrants support the city's population of nearly 13 thousand.
However, the newspaper reviewed and found that among the dead, most of whom were over 80 and 90 years old, there were patients with terminal cancer. None of those who died died due to medical negligence. It is possible that there is simply a tragic peak in natural care for the elderly in the city. But this is just the newspaper version.
