Confirmation arrived this Tuesday from the Regional Health Agency (ARS) Paca. The deaths recorded since March 20 in the La Rivera nursing home, in Mougins near Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes), all concern residents tested positive for Covid-19, said a spokesperson for the organization at 20 Minutes .
And, in total, fifteen deaths were counted, while the figure of twelve deaths was first put forward on Monday. "The diagnoses, carried out ante mortem or post-mortem, show a positivity to the new coronavirus for these fifteen people", advances this source.
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All the residents of the retirement home, considered as priority, have all been tested, also ensures the ARS which refused this Tuesday to reveal if other cases of Covid-19 had been recorded.
"The nursing home, which constitutes a contamination cluster, is therefore in a crisis situation", specifies the organization, and room by room confinement has been decided. Across the entire Paca region, 41 deaths attributable to the new coronavirus were recorded on Monday evening in nursing homes.
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