PARIS: Five hundred and seventy people have died in nursing homes in France's eastern region during the coronavirus outbreak, suggesting the ...
PARIS: Five hundred and seventy people have died in nursing homes in France's eastern region during the coronavirus outbreak, suggesting the national death toll linked to the illness could be far higher than thought.
That region was the first in France to be overwhelmed by a wave of infections that has rapidly moved west to engulf greater Paris, where hospitals are desperately trying to add intensive care beds to cope with the influx of critically ill patients.The national health agency will soon update its figures to include nursing homes and people who may have died in their own residences because of the virus.
"We have to limit the impact on old people as we know that they are the most fragile," said Romain Gizolme, head of an association for the care of the elderly. However, one worker in the Lyon region said that as of last week in her nursing home, residents were still dining together and staff were not wearing masks. Since then two workers had tested positive and four residents had fallen sick, she said.France recorded its worst daily coronavirus death toll on Wednesday, taking the official tally to 4,032, while the number of cases rose 17 per cent. Of those more than 6,000 people need life-support, including a third in and around Paris.
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