Brescia prosecutors have filed a
request to Italy's 'court of ministers' to shelve an
investigation into ex-premier Giuseppe Conte and former health
minister Roberto Speranza over the handling of the initial
stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, legal sources said on
Monday.
Conte, the leader of the 5-Star Movement (M5S), and Speranza are
among 19 people under investigation on suspicion of negligently
causing an epidemic amid claims that over 4,000 deaths could
have been saved if the initial red zone had been extended from
Bergamo to outlying areas, including another two towns, in
February 2020.
Lombardy Governor Attilio Fontana, former Lombardy councillor
Giulio Gallera, the president of the Higher Health Institute,
Italy's main centre for research, control and
technical-scientific advice on public health, Silvio Brusaferro,
and the president of the Higher Health Council, the health
ministry's senior advisory body, Franco Locatelli, are also
being probed.
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