The facts happened in a Toulouse nursing home.
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Rather spared in the spring during the first wave of the Coronavirus epidemic, the nursing homes in Occitania are hit hard in September.
After that of Séverac d'Aveyron, it is an establishment for the elderly in Auch, in the Gers, which has just detected a large number of positive cases for Covid-19.
According to the management of the “La Roseraie” nursing home, owned by the Itinova group, 40 of the 58 residents are affected as well as 11 of the 41 employees of this site.
From September 7, and while several residents were showing symptoms, a systematic screening system was organized, in direct connection with the Regional Health Agency (ARS).
Forty-eight Haute-Garonne nursing homes affected
For the moment "the state of health of residents diagnosed positive for Covid-19 remains stationary and without sign of seriousness to this day, but the staff of the establishment remains vigilant and carries out reinforced surveillance", ensures the management.
An elderly person had to be hospitalized on Friday, while the first resident affected and taken care of by the hospital should return to the nursing home by the end of the week.
To ensure continuity of service, the teams were reinforced at the end of last week with the arrival of a nursing assistant and a nurse from the health reserve.
And Gers and Aveyron are not the only two departments of Occitanie concerned.
Thus, in Haute-Garonne, 48 nursing homes and autonomous residences are currently affected by the epidemic out of a total of 150 structures, including 12 clusters, indicates Laurent Poquet, the departmental delegate of the Regional Health Agency.
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