We reported on Tuesday about the lack of protective equipment at Geråshus. DN has previously stated about the staff situation at the elderly housing: that 69 per cent of the staff were on sick leave at the end of April-May. In addition, managers and planners were sick at the same time for seven days, the municipality says. How many of them were at home with covid-19 is not clear.

According to Area Manager Ulrika Reibring, they will investigate this more closely, but she believes it is not certain that the staff has become infected at work.

After all, there are several examples of employees infected at the affected homes, including Kviberg and Geråshus, do you know how many are infected?

- No, we don't know yet. The future will show where you got it. It's a social infection, too. Many of our employees live in this district and we have had many people in the population who have been infected. One gives the other, she says.

According to the trade union, many are just at home and at work, so they have probably been infected at work?

- We will see that in the future when we have gone through the notifications that may come, she says.

Anna Skarsjö, chair of the Municipal West, says that three close acquaintances who worked at elderly homes in Gothenburg were infected by covid-19 and received respiratory care. However, they did not work at Geråshus.

The fact that so many have been absent has also meant that employees have been taken over and the pressure has become harder on the remaining. According to Kommunal, staff have also gone between different units on the accommodation and between different accommodation. This may have increased the spread of infection.

- Staff have switched between healthy and sick patients. That's another of the major problems that I think is the reason for it being infected, she says.

- Then I can say that we have limited it very well. It may have occurred, but not on a passport. We have had a great collaboration with the staffing unit. And they have targeted the staff, so it has been very limited, says Ulrika Reibring.

But shouldn't people be prohibited from working in different departments and different accommodations?

- Yes, but we must also have staff.

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