Over 4,000 COVID-19 deaths would have
been prevented if Lombardy Governor Attilio Fontana had extended
a red zone from Bergamo to outlying areas after the virus broke
out there in early 2020, a Bergamo prosecutor says in a probe
for culpably causing an epidemic against the Lombardy chief,
ex-premier Giuseppe Conte, former health minister Roberto
Speranza and 19 others.
Fontana is alleged to have caused "the spread of the epidemic"
in the Seriana Valley near Bergamo with an "estimated increase
of no less than 4,148 people, equal to the number of fewer
deaths that would have occurred if the red zone had been
extended from 27 February 2020," said the Bergamo Public
Prosecutor's Office in a notice of investigation for culpable
epidemic for which Conte is also allegedly responsible.
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