Turin prosecutors have opened a
probe into whether a couple flouted precautionary rules in not
telling a city hospital they had been visited by their son who
lives in Lodi, the heart of the Italian coronavirus outbreak.
The couple went on to test positive for the virus.
The couple of 80-year-old patients at Turin's Molinette
Hospital have tested positive for the coronavirus, regional
health sources said on Friday.
The couple, whose son reportedly works in the area of Lodi in
Lombardy at the center of the outbreak, were being treated in
the general medicine ward directed by Doctor Luca Scaglione.
The sources said the couple were diagnosed with influenza
when they were admitted to the hospital because they failed to
declare that their son works in the area of Lodi.
Regional health authorities said all procedures to deal with
the cases have been activated, including tracing back the
patients' contacts prior to their arrival at the hospital.
The woman has been transferred to the Hospital Amedeo di
Savoia, according to regional protocols, while the man is in ICU
in critical condition, the sources said.
The other patients being treated in the same ward are not
considered at risk although they have been transferred to other
wards at Molinette as a precaution, the sources added.
Healthcare operators and visitors who were in contact with
the couple are being tested, they said.
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