Staff ‘worked while symptomatic’ at US care home with 35 deaths
Officials say at least 35 coronavirus deaths are confirmed to be associated with the Life Care Centre in Kirkland, Washington. The northwestern state is the US epicentre of the pandemic. – EPA pic, March 19, 2020.
THE devastating coronavirus outbreak at a nursing home near Seattle where 35 have died was likely fuelled by infected staff continuing to come to work, said a report yesterday. The care home is responsible for more than half the Covid-19 deaths in the northwestern state of Washington – itself the US epicentre of the pandemic.
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