The La Riviera nursing home in Mougins, in the Alpes-Maritimes, where 40 out of 109 residents have died from Covid-19 since the start of the epidemic, has been re-confined following a positive coronavirus case in a resident. This is what the Korian group indicated on Tuesday.
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This positive case concerns a resident hospitalized for other health reasons at the Cannes hospital center, specifies Antoine Ruplinger, regional director of Korian, a group which manages this establishment housing dependent elderly people, confirming information from Nice-Matin .
Residents and staff tested
"This resident, who had been ill with Covid last March and was cured, with several negative tests, tested positive when she was admitted to the hospital center, suggesting either traces of her former infection, or a new infection ", specifies Antoine Ruplinger, adding that" the hospital indicated that it did not present any symptoms of Covid ".
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As a precaution, Korian has nevertheless re-defined its residents since Saturday and banned meals taken together and visiting relatives. The group also carried out a set of tests on the elderly and the staff. "All the tests carried out on sixty residents are negative, as are those carried out on most of our sixty employees," Korian noted. Depending on the latest results expected Wednesday on the rest of the staff, the containment measures and restriction of visits could be lifted in the wake.
In April, following the numerous deaths in the establishment, relatives of residents filed a complaint against X for intentional homicide, failure to assist a person in danger and endangering others.