Inadmissible. This is how the Court of Cassation ruled against the appeal of the Sassari prosecutor's office, which had challenged the acquittal of two medical guards, Lucio Zirattu and Maria Caterina Cherchi, accused of manslaughter for the death of Roberto Pais, the 51-year-old from Ossi, the first person to die of Covid in northern Sardinia in March 2020 .

The acquittal for the two doctors, defended by lawyers Luca D'Alò and Nicola Satta, had already been pronounced in November 2022 with the ruling of the preliminary hearing judge Sergio De Luca "because the fact does not exist". A ruling reaffirmed in March 2024 by the Court of Appeal and now, with the ruling of the Supreme Court, has become definitive.

The first victim of coronavirus in the Sassari area had been showing cough, fever and tiredness since March 8, 2020, to which dyspnea was later added. According to the prosecution, the two medical guards did not investigate Pais' clinical picture further and did not report his case to 118 or to the local crisis unit. The man, finally taken to the Santissima Annunziata hospital, died on March 22, 2020 in the intensive care unit .