Two elderly people die of Covid-19 in an “outdated” nursing home

Illustrative photo of a nursing assistant in an nursing home.

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The Mellet-Mandard nursing home, located in Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert (Loire), heavily illustrates the second wave of coronavirus currently affecting France.

This accommodation facility for dependent elderly people has thus become a source of contamination for two weeks, as indicated by

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The Ephad has 37 positive cases, including 22 residents and 15 staff.

Concern has escalated even further with the deaths of two residents at the end of last week.

The start of this cluster would come from a team of caregivers, affected by Covid-19 at the end of September.

“We knew that if the virus returned to us, the consequences would be catastrophic, confides to

Sonia Desbordes, director of a structure in the midst of rehabilitation work.

There, the rate of contagiousness and the circulation of the virus really overtakes us.

”Especially since of the 82 residents, 50 share a double room.

"This makes the isolation of these vulnerable people very complex in order to stem the contamination", regrets Sonia Desbordes.

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