After two years of pandemic and five waves of Covid-19, the virus will have got the better of Ingria, in the Piedmont region. Located between Turin and Aosta, at 816 meters above sea level, this small village recorded its first positive case, indicates France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. “Fortunately, asymptomatic”, explains Mayor Igor De Santis. “The important thing is that the person is well and does not develop a severe form of the disease.”
“One day or another, it had to happen”, specifies a deputy mayor, in the columns of the daily La Stampa. For Mayor Igor De Santis, if the village has lasted so long, it is above all thanks to the vaccination of seniors. “There is no secret. If we have remained, I believe, one of the only villages in Italy not to be contaminated at all, it is first of all because all our elders have been vaccinated. . And that our thirty inhabitants a year have always done their best to respect barrier gestures, “he says.
The Ingria exception
However, nothing has been easy. During the last two years, all the municipalities north of Turin recorded at least one positive case, until it turned red on the health map put in place by the crisis unit of the Piedmont region. Ingria, alone against all, remained spared by the Covid-19. An exception.
“But we do not live cut off from the world, continues the mayor. During the holidays or the weekends, our population increases. With the owners of second homes who come up from Turin, Milan … or even from France. Lots of people. originally from the village have kept a family home there. “
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Ingria’s invincibility in the face of the virus no doubt has its share of chance. “There is still a bit of luck in all of this”, admits the mayor who will admit a few moments later to have tested positive several minutes before. Never two without three now?
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