in Italy, 500 families of relatives who have died of the virus claim 100 million euros from the state

Around 500 families of victims of the Covid-19 pandemic will file a civil complaint and demand one hundred million euros from the Italian state, which they accuse of “serious omissions in the management of the cries” e, report this Wednesday 23 December Italian media

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The complaint targets Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, Health Minister Roberto Speranza, and Attilio Fontana, President of Lombardy, the region most affected by the pandemic with nearly 25,000 of the some 70,000 deaths in Italy since February.

This civil complaint follows around 300 criminal complaints, according to a association of relatives of the victims at the origin of these legal proceedings, the We will denounce committee (we will denounce), filed in recent months, mainly with the public prosecutor’s office in Bergamo (north).

The prosecution is conducting several separate investigations related to this tragedy.

Major complaints about the establishment of “red zones”

The lawyers of “Noi denunceremo” reproach “serious omissions to the Lombard regional public authorities and to the central government“In the organization of the response to the pandemic, writes on Wednesday the local daily” Bergamonews “on its site.

They criticize, among other things, the absence of an updated national anti-pandemic plan and the delays in creating a “Red zone” in February, including two municipalities in the department of Bergamo, Nembro and Alzano Lombardo, particularly affected by the coronavirus.

The first “red zones” were established at the end of February by decision of the Italian government and concerned around ten municipalities in Lombardy, in particular Codogno, the city of “patient number one”.

At the beginning of March, the epidemic continued to spread, with two larger outbreaks, in the two municipalities of Nembro and Alzano but the red zone was only established there on March 9, the regional authorities and the government of Rome rejecting the responsibility for this delay.

Italy re-defined

These complaints come as a new containment has entered into force in Italy for the end-of-year holidays, from December 21 to January 6, to avoid a new rebound in the COVID-19 epidemic, announced the president of the Advice Giuseppe Conte. “Our experts fear that the contagion curve will increase during the Christmas period ”, he justified after a council of ministers.

During this period, it is forbidden to travel from one region to another, including to go to a second home, except for health or professional reasons. The retail business, including bars and restaurants, is closed. In theory, only one outing per household per day is tolerated. Religious celebrations will be permitted until 10 p.m.

The chief executive conceded that the authorities had neither the means nor the will to monitor compliance with home containment measures, but he asked the Italians to respect the limit of two adult guests.

Food shops, but also hairdressing salons, pharmacies, tobacconists and laundries – as well as bookstores – will however remain open.

“We can talk about a red zone”, said Giuseppe Conte, specifying that the confinement would be lightened on December 28, 29, 30 as well as on January 4. On these days the shops will be accessible until 9 p.m., and it will be possible to move without justification.

Italy has 60 million inhabitants and has one of the oldest populations in Europe. The decision was taken after several days of discussions within the government coalition, some components of which wanted total containment and others more limited measures to spare companies in difficulty and allow family reunions.

Italy also hit by the new variant of Covid-19

The new variant of the coronavirus, which caused the UK’s isolation, was also detected on the tests of three people in Italy. Italy could also face the new variant of the coronavirus, considered more contagious. In any case, it was detected with three Italians, ” It’s official for a couple: he’s British, she’s Italian. They live in the Rome area “, report Alban Mikozy pour France 2.“It is also very likely for an Italian student who lives in England and who returned to Bari, in the south of Italy”

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