Six residents died in an Ehpad in Roanne, in the Loire, due to the coronavirus.

Nearly fifty positive cases were detected after general screening, we learned from ARS Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes on Friday. 

Six residents died in an Ehpad in Roanne, in the Loire, where nearly fifty positive cases for Covid-19 were detected, we learned on Friday from the Regional Health Agency (ARS) Auvergne-Rhône- Alps.

Following the discovery of a positive case at the beginning of last week, a generalized screening revealed Thursday 40 positive cases among the residents and eight among the staff of this establishment of 65 beds, the same source specifies. . 

"Since then, appropriate measures have been implemented in the establishment with the support of mobile teams from the Roanne Hospital Center," ARS told AFP.

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When asked, the management of the Résidence du Clair-Mont, which belongs to the IGH group, based in the Bouches-du-Rhône, did not wish to speak.

In the same Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, twelve deaths were recently recorded in a retirement home in Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain).

In addition, the ARS of Center-Val de Loire announced Friday a cluster of 54 cases in one of the largest nursing homes in France, located in Bourges.