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"This rumor is out there, but if it is in a city of 7,000 inhabitants, where everyone knows each other, it will be true."
Mayor Salvuccio Messina speaks from Pietraperzia (Enna), in the heart of Sicily.
The news that is on everyone's lips is that
the members of a family, six people, all dead from Covid in a month
, were convinced that they should not be vaccinated.
The confirmation of the niece
The confirmation of the rumor, however, came from a niece, Noemí: "
They were afraid
, there were friends and acquaintances who had had serious consequences with the vaccine. So
everyone had chosen not to do it
."
The first to die was
Michele Mancuso
, 81, on Christmas Eve.
He was not hospitalized.
He didn't arrive on time.
She passed away on January 17.
Concetta Guarnaccia
, 91, mother-in-law of two of Michele's daughters who had married her "boys".
Then five days later it was the turn of
Maria Mancuso
, 55, Michele's first daughter;
the same fate befell his brother
De Ella Vincenzo
, 55, on January 25.
Finally, two days ago the last deaths: Maria and Vincenzo's sister,
Concetta Mancuso
, 52, and her mother
Vincenza Fontanella
.
She was 78 years old.
the ambulances
All had been
hospitalized at the Umberto I hospital in Enna
.
"Everyone taken from their homes in an ambulance. We knew this," adds the mayor.
"It was a shock. Especially caused by the last two deaths, the poor women, mother and daughter. They have thrown my city into despair."
The news was broken by a local site,
Radioluce
.
The person who wrote the article, Gaetano Milino, affirms "that
it was known that they were not vaccinated
, so the relatives asked me to remove the reference, out of delicacy."
A family like many others.
People known by all and esteemed.
Retired seniors.
Vincenzo
was described as an honest worker,
Concetta
a hairdresser and her sister Maria a housewife.
The mayor knew them by sight.
"They were middle-class people. My fellow citizens are terrified.
I just can't understand it. Most of the villagers are vaccinated
. We did things right. I have made the City Hall available to administer the doses. ASL was quick." .
A sister, the youngest, follows.
She lives in Belgium, in Charleroi.
She expressed her pain on facebook, posting a photo over a phrase:
"It's my family
".
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