Italian tax police on Wednesday
raided the offices of the Lombardy regional government in a
probe into the coronavirus-related deaths of elderly residents
of care homes across the northern region.
The probe is centred on the Pio Albergo Trivulzio care home
in Milan, where 143 residents have died since the start of the
virus emergency. It also involves other care homes in Milan and
across the region.
Finance police said they were looking for directives from the
regional government on these homes, where scores of residents
have died and directors are suspected of culpable negligence.
NAS health and hygiene police said Wednesday that of 600 care
homes inspected across Italy, 17% of them had been found to
present irregularities.
Norms were not respected in 104 centres, and 15 of them
closed down. Patients were moved elsewhere.
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