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Rome, September 21, 2020 – En Italy, it is known, the Coronavirus runs slower than in the rest ofEurope, not to mention the world. But it is interesting to understand who hits plus. And from Inail’s eighth national report on occupational infections, a surprising identikit emerges: 71.3% of workers infected with Covid-19 is donna, while the average age drops to 47 years.
The study is based on in-depth information sheets on the cases registered in the 19 Italian regions and in the two autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano, distributed monthly. Then there is the territorial data, which in fact is a little less surprising: more than 8 complaints of Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus infections at work out of 10 are concentrated in North italy: 56.1% in Northwest and 24.2% in Northeast. the Center Italy detects 11.9% of infections at work, South only 5.7% and the islands a minimum percentage: 2.1%.
As of August 31, Inail reported 52,209 infections at work (19.4% of all infected). Covid deaths captured in the workplace since the start of the pandemic are 303, 27 more than in July.
Deaths at work: the categories most involved
Analysis of Covid-19 deaths contracted in the workplace reveals that around a third of fatal cases refer to health and social assistance personnel, based on sanitary technicians, with the 10.3% of deaths, followed by medici (7.5%), operators health and social assistance (5.6%), social workers and unskilled personnel of the health services (3.6% for both categories), and specialists in life sciences, such as toxicologists and pharmacologists (2.4%).
With 39.7% of reported infections, more than 83% of which correspond to nurses, the professional category of health technicians is confirmed as the most affected by the virus, followed by social and health workers (20, 9%), by doctors (10.2%), social workers (8.9%) and unqualified personnel of the health services, such as assistants, porters and orderlies (4.8%), administrative employees (3.1 %), by cleaning service workers (1.9%) and sanitary managers (1.0%).
The other categories involved are those of administrative employees (11.5% of deaths), of trucking workers (6.3%), of sales people (2.8%), of employees in the restaurant business., of the service personnel of security, surveillance and custody and of directors, executives and equivalents of the public administration and in the health, education and research services (all with 2.4% of fatal cases reported).
considering the productive activities – Inail still points out in its report – 71.2% of reported infections and 23.3% of fatal cases are concentrated in Health and social assistance (which includes hospitals, residences for the elderly and the elderly, institutes, clinics, university polyclinics, residences for the elderly and disabled), which together with the sector of public health organizations (Asl) raises the proportion of infections to 80.2% and 34 , 0% of the deaths occurred in the health sector. It is followed by surveillance services, cleaning, call center, the manufacturing sector (used in the processing of chemical, pharmaceutical, food products) and the activities of accommodation and restaurant services.
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