Roberto Speranza

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The citizens group Noi Denunceremo (We Will Report) calls for justice for Covid-19 victims

prosecutors in Northern Italy are to question the Prime Minister , Giuseppe Conte on Friday after relatives of Covid-19 victims called for an investigation into the alleged government negligence.

The hearing is to be held, in Bergamo, the town in the vicinity of Milan, the strongest of coronavirus, before the whole country was locked in March.

Mr Conte said he was "not at all concerned" about the survey.

related argue that The Virus -hotspots should have been isolated earlier.

Fifty legal complaints were filed, the Prosecutor's office Reports, on Thursday in Bergamo by a citizens group called Noi Denunceremo (We Are).

The Group consists of bereaved relatives of Covid-19 victims, the-let's say-two Lombardy cities - Alzano and Nembro - should be considered a "Red Zone ", as soon as the outbreaks were detected, it.

Noi Denunceremo the members of the legal show the complaint you filed, in Bergamo

It is The First legal instrument collection is triggered action in Italy, by the pandemic. But Lombardy is governed by The Right -wing opposition-League-party, and many have the debt, but as the Central government, for alleged error in the coronavirus response.

In addition, the office of the public Prosecutor, the question of the Italian Minister of the interior, Luciana Lamorgese and Minister of health Roberto Speranza on Friday.

The state to find attorneys objective, whether There are grounds for any charges of criminal negligence.

Lombardy, where The Virus first spread in Europe and More Than half of The Victims in Italy have died in the region began.

On Thursday, Italy's official coronavirus Death Toll stood at 34,114 - The Second highest number in Europe after the UK, and the fourth highest in The World .

But Italy is the infection rate was brought down, so The Authorities gradually ease draconian restrictions.

Rome, the responsibility or the Lombardy is?

Mr Conte said: "I'll conscientiously all the facts, of which I know. I'm not concerned at all.

"All inquiries are welcome. The citizens have The Right to know and we have The Right to respond. "

In a BBC interview at the beginning of April, Mr. Conte claims that he had underestimated, denied The Crisis . He Said that if he had ordered a lockdown at the beginning, when The First Virus , were detected in the clusters, "the people would have me for a lunatic".

He dismissed the suggestion that Italy imposed rapidly a great lockdown like The One in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

Lombardy officials say the blocking of Virus -hotspots was a Central government responsibility. In the region, health Minister Giulio Gallera said, it was clear, of 23 February, Alzano and Nembro many cases had.

But Mr Conte, head of a centre-left coalition, the government Hit Back by saying: "if Lombardy had wanted to, it would have reported Alzano and Nembro red zones", the AFP news agency.

prosecutors have already been in question senior Lombardy officials.

How has the unfolding crisis in Lombardy?

The small town of Codogno was The First to be locked on 21. February. Then Lombardy and 14 provinces in the neighboring regions of Veneto, Piedmont and Emilia-Romagna locked at 8. March. Two Days later the block was extended to the whole Italy.

at the beginning of March, it was clear that The Hospitals in the Lombardy Crisis Zone were overwhelmed with Covid-19-patients and fight with the lack of protection kit, beds and medical personnel.

in the vicinity of Bergamo, showed what had to fight the doctors to, "devastating" figures from Covid-of the 19 patients without medication to combat The Virus .

Covid-19 of The Victims are buried, the said in a new section of the Monumental Cemetery of Bergamo

The Widow of one of The Victims , Monica Plazzoli: "If it is disorganized, even so, if the province of Bergamo has been made, in a Red Zone used to be, maybe driven all The Hospitals in the collapse".

taken As The Crisis take a toll on Mental Health :

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Source of news: bbc.com