The Secondigny des Deux-Sèvres nursing home is asking for reinforcements.
The town hall has just announced that 83 residents of the establishment were positive for the coronavirus out of a total of 86, or 96% of them.
Staff members are also infected and the mayor fears a "very complicated situation".
From no case of Covid-19 three weeks ago, the Secondigny nursing home rose to "a few cases" two weeks ago, then to 83 cases among residents out of a total of 86. The nursing home therefore launches an alarm signal and an urgent call to receive reinforcements "carers and non-carers", indicated the town hall.
In addition to these residents, there are several cases among the staff of 70 people.
Three deaths were recorded in three days, those of people weakened by other pathologies.
"Twenty, probably more" reinforcements will be necessary
On its website, the Secondigny nursing home writes that it "held firm for 10 months without the slightest case of Covid-19. To date, we are in turn affected by this pandemic. We appeal to all people available, caregivers and non-carers, to come as reinforcements on the nursing home ".
According to the town hall, "about twenty, probably more" reinforcements will be necessary to ensure the functioning of the nursing home, care tasks or not.
The town hall relayed this call, and approached temporary workers, and received an offer from the SDIS (Departmental Fire and Rescue Service) to "support".
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All precautions were taken from the increase in cases, residents confined to rooms, affected staff staying at home, or provided with gloves and gowns for those who remained at the nursing home.
The mayor of Secondigny, Jany Péronnet, also president of this communal Ehpad fears "a very complicated situation" if the virus affects "more nursing staff, who already work 12-hour days and can no longer keep up".
An explosion due to an "accumulation of things"
The mayor said he could not explain the acceleration "at an appalling speed" of contamination in the establishment.
He sees a probable "accumulation of things", including staff movements during the end of the year celebrations, and residents' hospital returns.
The management of the nursing home could not be reached on Thursday at the end of the day.
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Deux-Sèvres, according to the latest weekly report from the Regional Health Agency (ARS), is by far the leading department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine in terms of viral circulation.
The incidence rate is 238.6 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, but 326 for those over 65.
It has 22 nursing homes affected by the epidemic.