Covid Italia, Inail: record of infections at work in January 2022

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The infections at work from Covid-19 reported to Inail as of January 31 are 20,344 more than the monitoring at the end of 2021 (+ 10.6%), of which 16,779 referring to the first month of 2022, 3,169 in December, 170 in November and 38 in October, with the remaining 188 cases distributed between 2020 and the other months of 2021. The consolidation of the data makes it possible, in fact, to acquire information not available in the surveys and in the previous months. As highlighted by the 24th report of the Institute’s Statistical Actuarial Consultancy, published today together with the updated version of the regional in-depth sheets, the 16,779 infections of professional origin reported in January represent the highest figure recorded since 2020. January 2022 in fact ranks, for number of reported infections, after November, March, December, October and April of 2020 and before all the months of 2021. In total, since the beginning of the pandemic, the reports of accidents at work from Covid-19 received by Inail are 211,390, equal to more than one sixth of the total accidents reported since January 2020 and 1.9% of the total number of national infections reported by the Higher Institute of Health on the same date. 2020, with 148,565 cases, collects 70.3% of all infections of professional origin reported to the Institute up to 31 January 2022, with the month of November in first place with 40,701 reports, followed by March with 28,691. In 2021, with 46,046 reported infections, it accounts for 21.8% of the total.According to Inail data, Covid infections at work with a fatal outcome as of January 31st are 823, equal to a quarter of the total deaths reported from January 2020, with an incidence of 0.6% compared to the total of national deaths from Covid-19 communicated by the ISS on the same date. Compared to the 811 fatal cases recorded by the monitoring of 31 December 2021, the deaths are 12 more, all attributable to the previous months (nine occurred in 2021 and three in 2020). Except for consolidations (late reports) detectable in the next monitoring, in fact, at the moment the month of January 2022 does not present any reports of fatal injuries from contagion. WOMEN MORE INFECTED AT WORK The majority of Covid infections of professional origin concern women. The share of infected workers on the total of reported cases, in fact, is 68.3%. The female component exceeds the male component in all regions, with the exception of Sicily and Campania, where the incidence of women on the total infections reported to Inail is, respectively, 46.7% and 44.9%. NORTH-WEST HIGHER NUMBER OF INFECTIONS AT WORK, MORE INFECTIONS IN MILAN The territorial analysis shows a distribution of 43.0% of the reports received by Inail of Covid infections on work in the North-West (first Lombardy with 25.6% ), 23.5% in the North-East (Veneto 10.2%), 15.5% in the Center (Lazio 6.9%), 12.9% in the South (Campania 6.0%) and 5.1% in the Islands (Sicily 3.6%). The provinces with the highest number of infections since the beginning of the pandemic are those of Milan (10.2%), Turin (6.9%), Rome (5.5%), Naples (4.0%), Brescia (2, 6%), Genoa (2.5%), Varese and Verona (2.4% each), Bologna (2.2%), Florence and Monza Brianza (both with 2.0%). Milan is also the province that records the highest number of infections reported in the last month, followed by Turin, Rome, Brescia, Genoa, Monza and Brianza, Naples, Venice and Florence. The provinces that recorded the greatest percentage increases compared to the previous monitoring, not for infections that occurred only in January but for the consolidation of data in previous months, are however those of Teramo (+ 28.9%), Lucca (+22.0 %), Ragusa (+ 20.3%), Cagliari (+ 20.0%), Syracuse (+ 19.8%), Monza and Brianza (+ 19.8%), Latina (+ 19.5%), Imperia (+ 18.6%) and Trapani (+18.3%). 46 YEARS AVERAGE AGE The average age of Covid infected people at work since the beginning of the pandemic, according to Inail, is 46 years for both sexes. but in January 2022 alone it dropped to 44 and a half years. 41.7% of the total complaints concern the 50-64 age group. This is followed by the age groups 35-49 (36.6%), under 35 (19.8%) and over 64 (1.9%). Italians are 87.0%, while the remaining 13.0% of the reports concern foreign workers, in particular Romanians (21.0% of the foreign infected), Peruvians (12.6%), Albanians (8.1% ), Moldovans (4.5%), Ecuadorians (4.1%) and Swiss (4.0%). INFECTIONS IN HEALTHCARE AND SOCIAL ASSISTANCE In the evolution of Covid infections at work reported to Inail there are some differences in various sectors productive. In particular, healthcare and social assistance, in which 63.9% of the codified reports are concentrated, showed, compared to 2020 and in absolute terms, a number of accidents from Covid-19 in constant decline in the first half of 2021, registering its minimum level in June with 61 cases (there were more than 400 in June 2020) and then returning to growth in the second half of the year, with over two thousand injuries in December and five thousand in January 2022. In terms of incidence on the total of the infections reported to Inail, health and social assistance had reductions between February and June 2021, and then showed signs of recovery in the second half of the year, which continued also in January 2022. Other production sectors instead recorded during 2021 , but also in January of this year, higher incidences of occupational infections than in 2020. This is the case, for example, of transport and storage, which in the first month of 2022 also reached the highest number of complaints since the beginning of the pandemic.