Sport Pass of arms between Lombardy and Rome on erroneous COVID-19 data

SANTE-CORONAVIRUS-ITALY-LOMBARDY: Pass of arms between Lombardy and Rome on erroneous COVID-19 data

© Reuters / REMO CASILLI PASSAGE OF ARMS BETWEEN LOMBARDIA AND ROME ON WRONG COVID-19 DATA

MILAN (Reuters) - Lombardy and the central Italian government blamed each other on Saturday for the publication of erroneous coronavirus health data which has leads to the introduction of unjustified restrictive measures for the region of northern Italy.

Lombardy, the richest region in the country where the economic capital Milan is located, had to close most of its shops a week ago after being classified in the "red" zone under the Italian multi-system. levels.

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The entire Lombardy region is home to 10 million. We need your consent to load this rte-player contentWe use rte-player to manage extra The move comes as Italy's death toll from Covid - 19 rose by 36 to 233 on Saturday while the number of infections shot up by a single-day record of 1,247 to hit

Health Minister Roberto Speranza said on Saturday that Lombardy initially provided incorrect data, which skewed the calculations of the Italian Superior Health Council.

He has since designated Lombardy as an "orange" zone, allowing businesses to reopen and students to return to class after being forced to take courses at a distance.

The administration of Lombardy, led by the far-right League party, for its part attacked the Italian government.

"They wanted us to say it was our mistake, but it wasn't. I will never agree to say that there was an error in the data we sent," said the Governor Attilio Fontana at a press conference.

He announced that the region would take legal action in an administrative court and demand money from the government to compensate for the financial losses of traders who were forced to close at the start of the sales season.

The Confcommercio Milano traders association estimated that stores in Milan had lost around € 100 million in turnover.

Lombardy represents more than a fifth of the 2.46 million Italians who have been infected with COVID-19.

With 26,622 deaths out of a national total of 85,162, it is by far the Italian region most affected by the epidemic.

(Valentina Za, Blandine Hénault for the French version)