Citing studies on the medical records of the deceased during the pandemic, Brusaferro said COVID-19 was the main cause of death for the majority, "while for 10-12 percent of the patients who were infected by the new coronavirus" the main causes of death were other pre-existing conditions.
According to him, the epidemiological impact of the end of the lockdown on May 4 will be seen "beginning next week."
Also at the press conference was Gian Carlo Blangiardo, president of national statistics institute Istat.
"The amount of additional deaths in the course of one month and 10 days (between Feb. 20 and March 31) has been at least 39 percent more, or about 25,000 additional deaths, compared to the average death rate for the same period in the past five years," Blangiardo said.
Of the dead during the period this year, 54 percent had been diagnosed with COVID-19 and the remaining 46 percent were "directly or indirectly associated" with COVID-19.
Blangiardo explained that the second category refers to patients who succumbed to the new coronavirus because one of their vital organs had already been compromised by another disease, or those with life-threatening conditions who didn't manage to get hospitalized in time due to the coronavirus emergency.
Over 37,000 INFECTIONS IN WORKPLACE
Also on Friday, the National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Word (INAIL) said in a statement that over 37,000 COVID-19 infections occurred in the workplace between the end of February and May 4 this year. These infections resulted in 129 fatalities, of which 82.2 percent were men and 17.8 percent were women, INAIL noted.
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