The numbers are staggering. "In Ile-de-France, we have almost 60% of Ehpad in which there is at least one case of Covid, a little more than 400" of the 700 establishments in the region, said this Friday Aurélien Rousseau, director of the ARS Ile-de-France. “The contagion continues. This is progressing quickly, but not at the same level for lethality thanks to the barrier and isolation measures put in place ”, he continued, however refusing to specify the number of deaths.
According to the latest national assessment, based on a questionnaire to be completed daily by the establishments, the coronavirus has taken away more than 4,000 residents of Ehpad since the beginning of the epidemic, which particularly affects the elderly or frail. In Ile-de-France, the completion rate for this form reaches 85%, according to Aurélien Rousseau. "For the past week, the ARS has also been collecting the needs of nursing homes for doctors, nurses, nursing assistants, logistical, kitchen and bio-cleaning staff," he continued, saying that he was anxious not to "leave any Ehpad isolate themselves in complicated situations ".
Reinforcement teams
Some sixty people within the ARS are responsible for forming reinforcement teams and taking stock with the establishments. "We are in a context where the number of infected people among staff is increasing at the same speed as in the general population," he said. The government announced on Monday that a massive screening campaign would be gradually launched in the Ehpad, which previously could only test the first three suspects of Covid-19.
In Ile-de-France, which has 60,000 nursing home residents for 40,000 staff, the number of tests should reach "in the next few days 2,500 tests per day" for the two categories. "For the moment, we must assume a prioritization of the situations where there are the most cases to be sure that the measures of confinement and isolation, even hospital transfer, are up to the situation", continued the director of the ARS Ile-de-France.
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