It is not a final assessment, but it is already high. Thursday evening, the Director General of Health announced that 884 elderly people living in a nursing home had died in France since the start of the coronavirus epidemic. And 14,638 “confirmed or possible” cases have been identified in these specialized structures.
In Ephad cases, 14,638 cases of #coronavirus or Covid-19 infection were reported, as well as 884 deaths pic.twitter.com/0FAQumOmo2
- BFMTV (@BFMTV) April 2, 2020"This is a first partial figure, with great inequalities in the collection between regions and significant work is underway to consolidate all of these data," said Jérôme Salomon, indicating that among the 7,500 establishments in not all of them had reported this type of case.
They have so far been excluded from the official count, which reported this evening of 4,503 people who died in hospitals.
570 deaths in the Grand-Est
On Wednesday, the Regional Health Agency (ARS) said that in the Grand-Est, 570 deaths linked to Covid-19 had been recorded in the Ehpad since the appearance of the virus, including 314 only in the Haut-Rhin.
ARS Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, with 950 establishments for dependent elderly people, also announced that 1,191 residents in 236 nursing homes were "possibly contaminated" by the virus and 93 had died since the start of the epidemic, including 73 in institutions and 20 in hospitals.
Since the start of the health crisis, many players in the sector have regretted the lack of screening. Only the first two suspected cases of Covid-19 are tested in nursing homes, the following which would present a symptomatic or close state being then presumed infected, which makes it difficult to establish with certainty the causes of death in elderly people, already weakened .
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