Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is being addressed by investigators from northern Italy after family members of Covid-19 casualties requested an investigation into supposed government negligence.
The investigators have made a trip to Rome from Bergamo, the city close to Milan most exceedingly terrible hit by coronavirus before the whole country was locked down in March.
Mr. Conte said he was “not at all worried” about the questioning.
Relatives argue that infection hotspots ought to have been secluded before.
Fifty lawful objections have been documented at the Bergamo examiner’s office by a residents’ gathering called Noi Denunceremo (We Will Report).
The gathering comprises of dispossessed family members of Covid-19 casualties, who state two Lombardy towns – Alzano and Nembro – ought to have been pronounced “red zones” as soon as the outbreaks were detected there.
It is the first legal group action in Italy activated by the pandemic. Be that as it may, the Lombardy locale is represented by the conservative restriction League party, and many have accused them, as opposed to the focal government, for alleged failures in the coronavirus response.
What’s more, the examiners will address Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese and Health Minister Roberto Speranza on Friday.
The prosecutors aim to determine whether there are justification for any charges of criminal carelessness, and whether the choice on a lockdown ought to have been taken by legislators in Rome or Lombardy.
Lombardy was the place the infection previously began spreading in Europe and the greater part the victims in Italy died in the region.
On Thursday, Italy’s official coronavirus death toll stood at 34,114 – the second highest figure in Europe after the UK, and fourth-highest in the world.
Be that as it may, Italy’s disease rate has been cut down, enabling the authorities to gradually ease draconian restrictions.
Rome’s responsibility or Lombardy’s?
Mr. Conte stated: “I will conscientiously set out the facts factors of which I have information. I am not at all worried.
“All examinations are welcome. The residents reserve the option to know and we have the right to reply.”
In a BBC interview in early April, Mr Conte denied claims that he had underestimated the crisis. He said that if he had ordered a lockdown at the beginning, when the first virus clusters were detected, “people would have taken me for a madman”.
He excused the proposal that Italy could have quickly forced a major lockdown like the one in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
Lombardy authorities state securing infection hotspots was a focal government duty. The area’s Health Minister Giulio Gallera has said it was obvious from 23 February that Alzano and Nembro had numerous cases.
In any case, Mr. Conte, who heads an inside left alliance government, hit back by saying “if Lombardy had needed to, it could have made Alzano and Nembro red zones”, AFP news agency reported.
The investigators have just addressed senior Lombardy officials.
How did the crisis unfold in Lombardy?
The little town of Codogno was first to be locked down, on 21 February. At that point Lombardy and 14 areas in the neighboring locales of Veneto, Piedmont and Emilia Romagna were secured on 8 March. After two days the lockdown was extended to the whole of Italy.
Toward the beginning of March it was clear that hospitals in the Lombardy emergency zone were overpowered with Covid-19 patients and battling with deficiencies of protective kits, beds and medical staff.
This news is originally posted on BBC.COM
