Liguria Governor Giovanni Toti on
Monday reiterated his call for limitations to be imposed on
elderly people in Italy amid the COVID-19 pandemic after causing
a furore at the weekend with a tweet in which he described
seniors as "not indispensable to the country's productive
effort".
Centre-right politician Toti has apologised for the tone of the
"clumsy" tweet but said Monday that he stood by the substance.
"If we managed to protect the over-75s we would be able to keep
the country open," Toti told RAI television.
"We wouldn't have all of the dramatic problems that we have had
and that we will have and that will continue in terms of
unemployment, lower incomes ... because we would not have
problems in terms of hospital response".
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