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January 28, 2021 The Bergamo prosecutors are hearing in Rome the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, as a person informed on the facts, in the context of the investigation on the management of the pandemic in the province of

and, in particular, on the aspects concerning the pandemic plan.

During the day, other hearings are also scheduled by the prosecutors and the men of the Guardia di Finanza, including that of the president of the Higher Institute of Health

.

In addition to the minister and the president of the ISS, the magistrates will hear the coordinator of the CTS Agostino

, the director of prevention of the ministry Gianni

, the director of the Spallanzani hospital Giuseppe Ippolito and the former director of prevention Donato

, the official who physically wrote the 2006 pandemic plan, still in force and which, according to the investigations, has never been updated.

In the sights of the magistrates, directed by the prosecutor Antonio Chiappani, the failure to update the

has ended

which, according to what was reconstructed during the investigation, dates back to 2006 and which in 2017 was not updated except through a copy and paste of parts of the previous document.

In particular, the prosecutors intend to conduct a series of investigative investigations to verify whether the anti-flu and antiviral protocols provided for by the 2006 pandemic plan have been correctly applied after the

alarm

launched by the WHO on 5 January 2020.

It is above all on this is what the questions of the Orobic magistrates will focus on.

Speranza's hearing is underway at the Ministry of Health before the deputy prosecutor Maria Cristina Rota.

Speranza had already been heard as a witness last June, together with Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Minister Luciana Lamorgese, on the failure to establish a

, Nembro and other municipalities of the Lower Val Seriana where, between the end of February and the beginning of March 2020 , a Covid outbreak developed.

Brusaferro, Miozzo and the other witnesses (including the ISS manager Giovanni Rezza), will instead be heard in the afternoon in the barracks of the Economic and Financial Police Unit of the

in via dell'Olmata.