The infections in the workplace from Covid-19 reported to Inail as of October 31st are 66,781, equal to 15.8% of the total number of complaints received since the beginning of the year and 9.8% of the national infected communicated by the Institute superior of health care (Iss) on the same date.
This is what emerges from the Inail report in which it is emphasized that "after the post lockdown slowdown, the month of October, with 12 thousand more cases, confirms the resurgence of infections of professional origin already detected in September. The fatal cases are 332 , 13 more than the monitoring prior to 30 September (four deaths occurred in October, the remainder refer to previous months due to the consolidation of the data) and equal to about one third of the total deaths reported to Inail since the beginning of the year, with an incidence of 0.9% compared to the fatal cases from Covid-19 reported by the ISS ".
The report highlights that with respect to the production activities involved in the pandemic, the health and social assistance sector - which includes hospitals, nursing and retirement homes, institutes, university clinics and polyclinics, residences for the elderly and disabled - with 69.8 % of the reports and 21.6% of the codified fatal cases precedes the public administration (activities of the bodies in charge of health - Asl - and regional, provincial and municipal administrators), in which 8.7% of the reported infections and 10.2% of deaths.
The other sectors most affected are business support services (surveillance, cleaning and call centers), manufacturing (including those involved in the processing of chemical and pharmaceutical products, press, food industry), accommodation and catering services. and wholesale.
For the health, social assistance and public administration sectors as a whole, the number of cases codified in the first period of the pandemic up to and including May has gone from 80.5% to 49.8% in the June-August quarter. then go up to 74.5% in the two months September-October.
Conversely, in other sectors, with the gradual resumption of activities, the incidence of cases of contagion increased in the first two phases and decreased in the third.
This is the case, for example, of accommodation and catering services, which went from 2.5% in the first period, to 6.2% in the following quarter and to 1.9% in the two months of September-October, or transport, which passed from 1.2%, 5.6% and 2.2% respectively.
However, the decrease in terms of incidence observed in the last two months in these sectors must not be misleading: in October, in fact, the phenomenon resumed vigorously due to the number of complaints in all sectors.
The territorial analysis shows that more than half of the complaints presented to the Institute (53.1%) fall in the North-West, followed by the North-East (22.3%), Center (13.2%), South (8 , 3%) and Islands (3.1%).
With regard to deaths, the percentage of the North-West rises to 55.6%, while the South, with 16.6% of reported fatalities, precedes the North-East (13.3%), the Center (12.7 %) and the Islands (1.8%).
With one third of reported infections (33.1%) and 41.3% of deaths, Lombardy is confirmed as the most affected region.
