A glass window separates residents of a nursing home in Alzano Lombardo, Italy, from a Dec. 19 Christmas concert. Part of the country’s north, the area was hardest hit by the first wave of Covid-19. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)
ROME (AFP) Around 500 relatives of coronavirus victims are suing the Italian state for $122 million, alleging a litany of failures in the early stages of the pandemic, campaigners said Wednesday.
The action is being driven by the group “Noi Denunceremo” (We Will Denounce), which has already filed around 300 complaints with prosecutors in Bergamo, the city in the northern Lombardy region that suffered most from the first wave of the virus.
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Families of coronavirus dead sue Italy gov t for 100 million euros
Dec 23, 2020 9:59 PM PHT
Agence France-Presse
Around 500 relatives of coronavirus victims are suing the Italian state for 100 million euros ($122 million), alleging a litany of failures in the early stages of the pandemic, campaigners said Wednesday, December 23.
The action is being driven by the group Noi Denunceremo (We Will Denounce), which has already filed around 300 complaints with prosecutors in Bergamo, the city in the northern Lombardy region that suffered most from the first wave of the virus.
The legal action targets Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, Health Minister Roberto Speranza and the president of the Lombardy region, Attilio Fontana, the group said in a statement.
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Families of Covid victims in Italy take government to court Claudio Lavanga
ROME Five hundred families of coronavirus victims are taking legal action against Italy s regional and national governments, whom they deem responsible for a series of omissions, mistakes and delays during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The families say the national government and regional authorities in the hard-hit Lombardy region were unprepared for the crisis as the virus hit and did not take actions that could have prevented a national lockdown and subsequent economic damage, as well as loss of life.
Italy became one of the early epicenters of the pandemic, with its health care system pushed to the breaking point. Nearly 70,000 people died from coronavirus in Italy so far, the highest fatality count in Europe.