An unvaccinated health worker died of COVID in Alessandria Monday, nurses' union Nursind said Tuesday.
The woman, 64, had voiced the desire to get the virus.
She had been suspended from her job at an Alessandria hospital for refusing to get the jab.
In a video posted in November she said "it's better to die on your feet than to die crawling on the ground".
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