The Residence of Clair-Mont keeps counting the disappearances.
The death toll due to Covid-19 among the residents of this Ehpad in Roanne (Loire) amounted to nine people on Saturday, against six the day before.
"These people were among the 40 positive cases detected so far among the residents of the Residence of Clair-Mont, after a general screening which followed the discovery of the first case on September 8," said Stéphane Cozon, deputy director general of the IGH company, of which the nursing home is a subsidiary.
The Résidence du Clair-Mont has a total of 65 beds.
Eight employees also infected
“At the present time, we now have 31 positive cases among residents, including four worrying cases, which are taken care of by mobile teams from the Roanne hospital center,” he added.
Eight employees of the establishment were also infected and were immediately placed in quarantine, according to the official, who announced the suspension "until further notice" of visits except for relatives of residents "at the end of their life".
And this within a strict framework of barrier gestures.
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For families and private residents to meet, a videophone system has been planned and should be set up very quickly to maintain contact, the same source continued.
The positive nursing home residents are now "under close surveillance and are subject to the care deemed necessary by the medical teams," said a statement from the management on Saturday evening.
"Sectorized" to avoid contamination of residents "tested negative", the establishment has also benefited from the recruitment of "additional nurses" and offers on site "reinforced psychological support" both for its occupants and for its staff.
In the same Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, twelve deaths were recently recorded in a retirement home in Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain).
In addition, the ARS of Center-Val de Loire announced Friday a cluster of 54 cases in one of the largest nursing homes in France, located in Bourges.
