A total of 9 elderly people have died from coronavirus in recent days at the Soto Fresnos residence, a private center with arranged places located in the Madrid town of Soto del Real and which has 115 places.

They are data provided by some of the relatives of these residents, who indicate that three of them have died in the last 24 hours, and that there would be more isolated infected in the center , although how many are unknown because they cannot enter the facilities.

The management of the center has not wanted to provide these data or any other to Europa Press, although local sources have corroborated that deaths have occurred, without specifying numbers.

Asked about it this afternoon in an interview on Onda Cero, the Minister of Social Policies, Equality, Families and Natality, Alberto Reyero , has acknowledged that he knows the number that is being given of 9 deaths from the coronavirus in Soto Fresnos, but that he has not yet The data has been provided by the residence.

If this figure is confirmed, it will join the twenty deaths from this pandemic in the geriatic Monte Hermoso, the nine deaths in the Albertia de Moratalaz residence, the five in a Morata de Tajuña residence and another six in the Motnserrat Caballé residence. from Madrid's Barajas neighborhood. In total, and while waiting for new cases of the relationship that the Ministry is already preparing, fifty hundred elderly inmates in nursing homes in the region have died from coronavirus so far.

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