The small village of La Puye, 40 km east of Poitiers, in Vienne, is not used to spotlights. But the drama that hit his retirement home Sainte-Élisabeth propelled him today to the front of the stage and made the headlines of the local press.
In three weeks, the coronavirus mowed nearly 20% of the residents of this establishment with large austere walls, formerly managed by a religious congregation. For this peaceful nursing home, everything changed on March 14: an octogenarian from the house, hospitalized at the Poitiers university hospital for another pathology, tested positive for Covid-19 and died the following day.
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In this region still spared the epidemic, it is a shock. The regional health agency (ARS) then noted the contamination of seven elderly people and four caregivers within the establishment. She sets up isolation measures and launches an investigation to understand the origin of how this first lady was infected. A priori, the infection would go back
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