- Patients and nursing staff at Saumur hospital, a total of 18 people, were found to be positive for the virus.
- Throughout the region, reports are increasing, especially in schools.
Reports are coming from all over the region. Thursday evening, the Regional Health Agency of Pays-de-la-Loire announced that special attention would be paid to the situation of the Saumur hospital center (Maine-et-Loire). In the past few hours, 18 Covid-19 positive cases have been detected there. "These are 13 patients from two departments and five professionals from another department," says Doctor Thierry Le Guen, in charge of health monitoring. The figures are not worrying, but we must be vigilant. "
All the staff of the departments concerned are being screened. Transfers from patients to nursing homes (some patients are elderly patients hospitalized in the geriatric ward) have been stopped for the moment.
Lifts from schools
While it is now requested to report any suspected cases, several schools are also closely monitored by the ARS. In addition to the two establishments in Le Mans, four other schools in Sarthe reported potential patients. In addition, staff were tested positive in a school in Avrillé (Maine-et-Loire), which led to the postponement of the start of the school year. A case was also confirmed in a school in Pallet (Loire-Atlantique).
According to the Regional Health Agency, which aims to be reassuring, this type of reporting will fall "every day". Beyond these potential groupings of cases, the search for contact cases has also started for individuals with coronavirus, as part of the famous "contact tracing". On Wednesday, after 16 new patients developed the disease, 31 people who worked with them were called. They were asked to isolate themselves before submitting to a test within a week, the time of incubation.
Since the start of the epidemic, 395 patients have died in hospitals in the region.
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