Italians who lost family members to COVID-19 seek â¬100 million in damages
Around 500 relatives of people who died of COVID-19 in Italy said on Wednesday they were initiating legal action against regional and national authorities, seeking â¬100 million (more than $156 million Cdn) in damages.
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Posted: Dec 23, 2020 9:45 AM ET | Last Updated: December 23, 2020
A member of the medical staff washes his hands while working at the COVID-19 division at the ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital in Bergamo in April. Italy has seen more than 1.9 million cases of COVID-19 and nearly 70,000 deaths.(Piero Cruciatti/AFP/Getty Images)
Around 500 relatives of people who died of COVID-19 in Italy said on Wednesday they were initiating legal action against regional and national authorities, seeking â¬100 million (more than $156 million Cdn) in damages.
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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.
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Huge swathes of England will be placed under stringent COVID-19 restrictions, the British government announced on Wednesday (local time), as a highly infectious virus variant sweeps the country and pushes case numbers to a record level.
Britain has reported almost 40,000 new infections as the mutated variant of the coronavirus - which could be up to 70 percent more transmissible than the original strain - causes case numbers and hospital admissions to soar.
The number of recorded deaths - 744 - was also the highest figure since April. Against this backdrop of rising infections, rising hospitalisations and rising numbers of people dying from coronavirus, it is absolutely vital that we act, Health Minister Matt Hancock told a media briefing. We simply cannot have the kind of Christmas that we all yearn for.
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