Sardinia was classified in the lowest-risk white zone earlier this month and will stay there. The Italian news agency, Ansa, reported on Friday that health minister Roberto Speranza will sign a decree that would see the regions of Lombardy, Lazio, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Veneto, Piedmont, Puglia, Marche and the province of Trento enter the red zone from Monday.Ĭampania and Molise were already in the red zone and will stay there, while Abruzzo, Tuscany, Calabria, Liguria, Molise, Puglia, Sicily, Umbria, the Aosta Valley and province of Bolzano will be in the slightly less stringent orange zone. Conte put the entire country on lockdown two days later.Italy registered 26,824 new Covid-19 infections on Friday and 380 deaths. The first “red zones” were imposed three days later around 10 towns in Lombardy and one in Veneto, and extended to all of Lombardy and 14 other provinces in the north on March 8. 21, 2020, and the first death in another region hours later. Italy became the first county outside Asia to confirm cases of COVID-19 on Feb. The city’s morgue was so overwhelmed that the army had to send in trucks to bring coffins to other morgues for cremation.

27, 2020, as Bergamo province became Italy’s COVID-19 hot spot. The investigation alleges that more than 4,000 deaths could have been prevented if the lockdown had been extended on Feb. The investigation alleges errors were made in not extending a “red zone,” initially imposed on a limited number of towns in the neighboring Lombardy and Veneto regions, to Bergamo as the number of deaths there skyrocketed.

Speranza likewise said that he was “serene and sure to have always acted with discipline and honor in the interest of the country.'įontana’s lawyer said that he doesn't expect his client to be among those indicted, adding that 'Fontana was always questioned as an interested party,' not as a suspect. during one of the most difficult moments experienced in our republic.’’ Atillo Fontana.Ĭonte said in a statement after the investigation was formally closed Wednesday that he was “calm in the face of the country and Italian citizens, having operated with the maximum commitment ….

The case now goes to a magistrate in Bergamo to decide whether to indict more than a dozen suspects identified by prosecutors, including then Premier Giuseppe Conte, former Health Minister Roberto Speranza and Lombardy regional Gov. “Our aim was to reconstruct what happened and give a response to the population of Bergamo and surroundings,' prosecutor Antonio Chiappani told Radio 24 on Thursday. MILAN - Italian prosecutors have closed a COVID-19 investigation that accuses officials, including a former premier and a regional governor, of wrongdoing for failing to extend a lockdown zone in the early days of the pandemic to the northern city of Bergamo and adjacent industrial valleys.

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