On 11 February 2020, about ten days before the first Covid case ascertained in Codogno, the then Deputy Minister of Health Pierpaolo Sileri asked to "carry out a survey of the existing infectious disease wards, the number of dedicated beds 24 hours a day , on the number of ventilators and personnel available".
It emerges from the report of the Ministry's "task force", in the records of the Bergamo prosecutor's investigation.
Giuseppe Ruocco, at the time secretary general of the Ministry and among the 19 suspects, as reported in the papers, would have replied that a "mapping with respect to a low gravity scenario" was "sufficient".