New screenings will be carried out this Friday with nursing staff and infected patients.
The management of the Bordeaux University Hospital confirmed at
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that a cluster of Covid-19 was detected in the internal medicine department of the Saint-André hospital.
Sixteen caregivers and nine patients tested positive at the end of last week.
All of these people had been vaccinated twice, and none had a severe form of the disease.
“All the professionals concerned were isolated at their homes, and do not work on site, indicates the management of the CHU, and there has been a reorganization with a temporary closure of beds within the internal medicine department, while everything is ready. return to normal by next week.
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"The epidemic is starting again"
This cluster “shows that the epidemic is on the way again and must alert the entire population to the need to resume barrier gestures, especially now that it is colder and that we are more indoors”, continues the management of the CHU.
The CHU has about fifty Covid patients, and about twenty in intensive care, mostly people over 75 years old.
"It is not catastrophic, but these figures are constantly increasing, indicates the management, we have also regularly taken over the Covid crisis units.
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