Tragedy in a retirement home in Lanuvio, near Rome.
Five guests died and another seven people were transported to hospital in serious condition
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The alarm was given by an employee of the facility who, arriving this morning, found all 12 present (two health workers and 10 guests) unconscious.
The causes of death to be clarified.
Among the hypotheses a carbon monoxide poisoning.
Checks are underway by the fire brigade with special equipment to detect any harmful substances inside the retirement home.
The police investigate the matter.
"The Lanuvio facility, Villa Diamanti is not a Covid Center or a health facility, but it is a retirement home for the elderly on which epidemiological investigations were underway by the Prevention Department of ASL Roma 6 for a case of positivity found on January 13 on a social assistance operator of the structure ", the Covid-19 Crisis Unit of the Lazio Region announces it.
"Operators and guests had all been subjected to swabs the following day and last night there was a response from 3 operators who tested positive and 9 positive guests - added the Crisis Unit -.
This morning, according to what was learned from the health director of the ASL Roma 6, the ASL was expected to be taken over for transfers to the Covid wards.
Two social and welfare workers were transferred, as soon as the emergency services arrived on the spot, to the Tor Vergata Polyclinic and five elderly guests to the new Castelli hospital, all with symptoms attributable to carbon monoxide poisoning.
Inspections are underway by the competent Prevention Department of the Rome 6 Asl and there is constant updating through the general director of the Rome 6 Asl, Narciso Mostarda and the health director of the Rome 6 Asl, Roberto Corsi ".
