I’M 156.766 the complaints of injury at work due to new coronavirus as of February 28, 2021, equal to about a quarter of the overall reports of accidents at work since the beginning of 2020 and to 5.4% of the total national infected reported by the Higher Institute of Health (ISS). This was revealed by the monthly update of the INAIL report on the impact of Covid-19 on the world of work. The cases more than the 147,875 of the previous month are 8,891 (+6%). The second wave “of infections – the effects of which obviously did not end last year, continuing especially in January and, to a lesser extent, in February – notes Inail, had a more intense impact than the first also in the workplace and not only due to the presence of two more months: the period October 2020 – February 2021, in fact, accounts for 64.4% of the total accident reports from Covid-19, exactly double compared to 32.2% in the quarter March-May 2020. The complaints were concentrated in November (24.5%), March (18.1%), October (15.3%), December (15.2%), April (11.7%) %), May (2.4%) and September (1.2%) of 2020, and in the months of January (7.7%) and February (1.7%) of 2021, for a total of 97.8 %. The remaining 2.2% concerns the other months of last year: February (0.7%), June and August (0.6% for both) and July (0.3%), in addition to 19 related cases to January 2020.
The deaths
Unlike the complex of infections, for fatal cases it is the first wave to have had a more significant impact than the second: 67.8% of deaths, in fact, were reported in the quarter March-May 2020 against 29.6% of the period October 2020-February 2021. The deaths from Covid-19 reported to the Institute as of February 28th are 499, about one third of the total deaths at work reported to Inail since January 2020, with an incidence of 0.5 % compared to the number of national deaths from Covid-19 recorded by the ISS at the end of February. Compared to the 461 cases detected by the monitoring as of January 31, the deaths are 38 more, of which eight in February and six in January 2021, 14 in December and seven in November last year, while the remaining three deaths are attributable to the months previous.
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Territorial analysis: 44% of infections in the north-west
The territorial analysis, also in-depth through the regional data sheets, shows a distribution of complaints of 44.6% in the north-west (first Lombardy with 26.5%), 24.3% in the north-east (Veneto 10 , 7%), 14.5% in the center (Lazio 6.1%), 12.1% in the south (Campania 5.5%) and 4.5% in the islands (Sicily 3.0%). The provinces with the highest number of infections since the beginning of the pandemic are Milan (10.2%), Turin (7.1%), Rome (4.8%), Naples (3.7%), Brescia (2, 7%), Varese and Verona (2.6% for both) and Genoa (2.5%).
Milan is also the province that records the highest number of infections of professional origin occurred in the month of February 2021 alone, followed by ancona, Rome, Turin, Naples, Brescia, Perugia and the autonomous province of Bolzano. The provinces that recorded the greatest percentage increases compared to the January survey are, however, those of Vibo valentia (+ 34.1%), Campobasso (+ 26.2%), Lecco (+ 20.5%), Crotone (+20, 5%), Reggio Calabria (+ 19.4%), Perugia (+ 18.1%), Ancona (+ 16.7%) and Isernia (+ 16.3%).
Focusing on fatal cases alone, the percentage of the north-west rises to 47.5% (first Lombardy with 33.9%), while the south, with 20.9% of the deaths reported (against 12 , 1% found on all complaints), precedes the center (14.8%), the north-east (12.2% compared to 24.3% of total complaints) and the islands (4.6%). The provinces with the most fatalities since the beginning of the pandemic are those of Bergamo and Milan (9.0% for both), Naples (6.8%), Rome (6.2%), Brescia (5.2%) , Turin (4.0%), Cremona (3.8%) and Genoa (3.2%).
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The women workers are more infected, but it is mainly men who are dying
Mostly men (83.0%) and workers aged 50-64 (71.4%), over 64 (19.0%) and 35-49 (8.6%) die. , while 1% of deaths are recorded among the under 34s. The relationship between genders is reversed taking into account all the infections at work from Covid-19. The female share of the total, in fact, is 69.6%. The number of infected women workers exceeds that of workers in all regions, with the exception of Sicily and Campania, where the incidence of women on the total of infections of occupational origin is, respectively, 47.0% and 45.3% .
The average age of the infected since the beginning of the epidemic is 46 years for both sexes (59 for the deceased). 42.1% of the total complaints concern the 50-64 age group. The 35-49 age groups (36.8%), under 34 years (19.2%) and over 64 years (1.9%) follow.
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