Ten residents of an Ardèche department nursing home died within ten days of contracting the coronavirus and six other residents of the establishment, also infected, are hospitalized, it was learned Sunday from The direction.
The last death occurred Saturday at the Aubenas Hospital Center, where three of the six other sick residents of this 80-resident nursing home, still located in Villeneuve-de-Berg, are still being treated. The last three sick residents are currently being treated at the hospital.
On March 15, the management of the Ehpad decided to confine all residents until further notice in their individual rooms, "including during meal times", after having identified symptoms in several residents. coronavirus. Since then, she has maintained "maximum vigilance", the most fragile having been placed "under constant surveillance" by the nursing staff.
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"We could not prevent the arrival of an acute episode from March 18 with a first death," said director of nursing home Cyrille Bernet, confirming information from the Dauphiné Libéré . "No additional clinical case has been diagnosed since March 23," he said, noting that "the situation has stabilized for three or four days".
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On Saturday, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran announced that he would ask "Ehpad-type establishments to go towards individual isolation" for each of their residents in order to "go further" in protecting the elderly against the coronavirus.
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