A retirement home in Aveyron announced Sunday that 43 residents and 11 employees were infected with Covid-19, we learned from the Regional Health Agency on Sunday.
“
At this stage, we have 54 positive cases, 43 residents and 11 staff.
Most people are asymptomatic.
Two elderly people were hospitalized,
”an ARS executive told AFP.
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The two infected residents were taken from the nursing home in Séverac-le-Château to the hospital in Rodez, the Aveyron prefecture, 50 km away, "
but their state of health did not require placement. in intensive care
”, specifies the ARS.
Some employees and one employee showing symptoms of the disease, tests were carried out in the middle of the week.
The alert was given on Friday when the nursing home received laboratory results indicating 5 infected residents and one nursing home employee.
As of Saturday morning, a generalized campaign of tests was then launched among the 75 residents and 63 staff of the retirement home.
The ARS added that a reinforcement of nurses was planned, that the visits were severely limited and that "
preventive measures had been reinforced to protect all people and prevent the virus from spreading
".
For now, the origin of the contamination is not known.