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" Our establishment is a bubble." Since March 18, a large part of his team has decided to shut up with the 108 residents of the Vilanova nursing home in Corbas (Rhône). A voluntary confinement imagined to protect these residents at risk as much as the families of the employees. "We are currently living in 25 nursing home nurses, nursing assistants, seamstresses or administrative staff," lists Valerie Martin, the director, who claims to have received the support of his superiors to engage this bet. "It's still experimental, but we haven't had any cases of Covid-19 yet," she confirms. Locking yourself in for an indefinite period and cutting yourself off from your loved ones was not a priori self-evident. “But by looking at the process of propagation of the coronavirus in Italy, we clearly saw that the measures in France were insufficient. So we managed to unite the teams around this project: preserving the lives entrusted to our establishment, ” explains Valérie Martin.
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