A couple of anti-vaxxers have been
placed under investigation for attempted murder after denying
permission for a COVID test necessary for moving their seriously
ill child to another hospital where he would have received
critical treatment, although he survived in the end, Corriere
della Sera newspaper reported Saturday.
The anti-vax parents of the four-year-old boy, hospitalised for
a serious illness, opposed the COVID test required to move him
to another hospital, and have been placed under investigation
for attempted murder, said the Milanese newspaper, Italy's
biggest selling non sports daily.
The swab was reportedly necessary to allow the little boy to be
moved to another facility, which, according to the doctors, was
more likely to give him life-saving treatment.
The prosecutors therefore authorised the forcible taking of
biological samples, which is allowed in cases under
investigation, said the Corriere.
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