Investigation into Covid in the Bergamo area closed

    Three years after the outbreak of the Covid pandemic which, between February and April 2020, devastated the Bergamo area with over 6,000 more deaths than the average of the previous year, the Public Prosecutor's Office has closed the investigation into the culpable epidemic and give notice of closure.

The assistant prosecutor of Bergamo Cristina Rota with the prosecutors Silvia Marchina and Paolo Mandurino, under the supervision of the prosecutor Antonio Chiappani, summed up an investigation with which they tried to shed light and identify the responsibilities, possible or not, of that tragedy that left a deep wound.

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    Beyond the number of suspects, of which only a few names are now known, and the possible sending of some strands to other prosecutors, the investigations, which made use of a maxi consultancy signed by Andrea Crisanti, microbiologist from the University of Padua and now a senator of the Democratic Party, concerned three levels, one strictly local, one regional and the third national.

   In the crosshairs of the investigators and investigators of the Guardia di Finanza, not only the dead in the RSA of Val Seriana and the case of the Alzano hospital closed and reopened within a few hours, but above all the failure to establish a red zone equal to the one arranged in the Lodi area and the lack of updating of the pandemic plan, stopped in 2006, and the application of the existing one even if dated which in any case, according to the elements collected, could have contained the transmission of Covid.