Some Italian regions are cheating on the figures of infection by the coronavirus ? The doubts and the controversy rising in the peninsula, particularly as regards the Lombardy region, the most affected by the Covid-19, as the country prepares to reopen its borders.

" One can reasonably suspect that some regions use tricks to not have to close them again ", said Thursday the RAI24 Nino Cartabellotta, head of the Fondazione GIMBE, a reflection group on health. "The Lombardia is one of them ". There, he said, there were " too many strange things in the data of the last three months ", including persons counted as being healed in their discharge from the hospital but still sick.