Carabinieri NAS health police found
87 care-home staff who had not been vaccinated for COVID-19 in
an operation in the first 10 days of May, sources said
Wednesday.
They shut down six homes for the elderly across Italy.
The NAS found irregularities in 141 of 572 facilities they
inspected, or 25%.
They issued 197 fines totalling some 43,000 euros, reported 36
people to judicial authorities, and reported another 136 to
administrative authorities.
NAS in Pescara found four clients of a residential home near
Chieti who had not been vaccinated, and ordered them to get the
jab.
Vaccinations for care home staff became compulsory on April 1.
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