Coronavirus: The grim crisis in Europe's care homes
Deaths can be invisible, coffins are hard to hide.
"There was a cluster of about fifty people with fever, followed by severe pneumonia," he said. "At the height of the epidemic here, there must have been 25 or 30 patients on oxygen." In Italy, hundreds of deaths have been reported in residential homes in Bergamo in the north, while 83 elderly residents went without food at a home for two days in the south because staff had to go into quarantine.
In a home in Alcoi, near Alicante, 26 out of 130 residents died. More than 1,600 residents of care homes died in the first four weeks of March, with more than half believed to have fallen victim to Covid-19.Spanish doctor 'scared and exhausted' by pandemic
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