Over 37 thousand infections by Coronavirus in the workplace between the end of February and May 4: 9 thousand more in the last two weeks. In all 129 deaths at work with 31 more deaths since April 21 (date of the last survey) and a clear prevalence of men (82.2%) over women (17.8%). Doctors and nurses are the most exposed to risk with 73.2% of complaints and almost 40% of fatal cases in the health and social care sector. Inail takes stock of Covid-19 infections of professional origin with the data of the complaints received by the institute since the beginning of the epidemic.
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The negative primacy of the North West
The negative primacy of Lombardy with more than one out of three reports (34.2%) and almost 43% of fatal cases. Eight out of ten complaints come from the North West which has 53.9% of the total, 25.2% from the North East, the rest distributed between Central (12.5%), South (6%) and Islands (2.4 %). Piedmont had 14.9% of fatal cases, Emilia Romagna 10%, Veneto 8.9%, Tuscany 5.8%, Liguria 4.2%.
The average age of infected workers, Inail says, 47 years old, for both men and women. But it rises to 59 years if we consider the fatal cases: 2 out of 3 deaths are in the 50 to 64 age range, over 20% of the reported deaths in the age group over 64 years.
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