Illustration of an Ehpad - STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP

The funeral services had to manage an abnormally high activity these last days in an Ehpad of Mougins, above Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes).

In two weeks, several deaths, at least a dozen, were noted among the residents of the retirement home La Riviera and "an investigation is open" to determine whether they are linked or not to the epidemic of new coronavirus, indicates this Monday evening at 20 minutes the Regional Health Agency (ARS) Paca, confirming information from Nice-Matin .

"Covid-19 death certificates"

In total, twelve people from this Korian group establishment have lost their lives in the past two weeks. Analyzes should be carried out to determine the exact causes of each death, but according to the manager of the funeral director who intervened, "it was written Covid-19" on "all death certificates", a- she explained to the regional daily.

Pending formal confirmations, the Regional Health Agency dispatched a mobile hygiene team to the site and asked the establishment to take measures to protect the other residents of this Ehpad, which has a hundred.

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