Covid, Inail: 107,000 infections reported at work in 10 months

There are

reported in the

: according to the

explaining that since the beginning of the pandemic, complaints of 305,395 infections have arrived.

Compared to the monitoring at the end of August, there are 8,589 more cases (+2.9%).

2022 currently accounts for 35.2% of the total occupational infections reported to the Institute from the beginning of the pandemic to 31 October last.

2020, with 148,986 infections, collects 48.8% of all cases, while the remaining 16.0% (48,807) is concentrated in 2021.

The new report also confirms the

sharply decreasing

.

In fact, the 886 deaths from Covid-19 reported to Inail since the beginning of the pandemic are concentrated almost exclusively in 2020, which with 586 infections with a fatal outcome collects 66.3% of the total, and in 2021, with 290 fatal cases ( 32.6%). 

The average incidence of deaths from Covid-19

, falling to around one in six in 2021 and contracting considerably in the first 10 months of this year. 

The average age of those infected 

since the beginning of the pandemic

, but in the month of October alone it rose to 48.

41.8% of the total number of complaints concerns the 50-64 age group, followed by the 35-49 age group (36.1%), under 35 (20.0%) and over 64 (2.1%) .

88.5% are Italians

, while

.

The nationalities most affected are Romanian (20.7% of infected foreigners), Peruvian (12.3%), Albanian (7.9%) and Swiss (4.6%). 

The majority of occupational infections affect women

.

The share of infected workers on the total number of cases, in fact, is equal to

. 

However, it is mainly men who die

(82.8%).

(57 for women, 59 for men), with 71.3% of deaths concentrated in the range between 50 and 64 years. 

63.2% of the reports from Covid-19 concern the health 

and social assistance sector (hospitals, nursing and rest homes, institutes, clinics and university polyclinics, residences for the elderly and disabled), also in first place for number of deaths (21.1% of codified fatal cases).   

The analysis by profession of the injured person confirms that healthcare personnel are the most affected by the infections, starting with the category of health technicians, in which 37.8% of the complaints are concentrated (in three cases out of four women ), 82.3% of which related to nurses.

Followed by social-health workers with 16.0% (80.7% women), doctors with 9.4% (more than half women), social-welfare workers with 5.4% (1 85.3% women) and unqualified personnel in health services (about 80% auxiliaries, but also porters, stretcher bearers) with 4.4% (72.8% women).