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Following the Corona outbreak at a nursing home in Lichtenberg, there were twelve deaths in connection with a Covid 19 infection on Friday night, according to an internal health department message. Another source from the Tagesspiegel even speaks of “between ten and 20 dead.”
The district office and the Dussmann Group, to which the nursing home belongs, have yet to confirm the death toll.
According to RBB, nine residents with Covid-19 died in early November, “our numbers are close,” said a spokesman for the district office. According to information from Tagesspiegel, the first confirmed corona case had already occurred on October 8.
According to information from Tagesspiegel, the home administration resisted a partial evacuation, the Lichtenberg district office was on site with lawyers. In addition, it is said that the key of care has not been observed at home. Dussmann initially declined to comment on these allegations or answer questions.
According to an ER doctor present at the home the week before, the residents were not properly equipped with protective FFP-II masks, and members of the Bundeswehr are said to have been at the scene, presumably in the course of administrative assistance for the department of Health.
Phone change on Saturday afternoon
On the occasion of the case, there should be a telephone switch between the heads of the Senate Health Department and the Lichtenberg District Office on Saturday afternoon. A spokesman for Health Senator Dilek Kalayci (SPD) spoke of “dire news” that would leave “shocked” over the reports from the Lichtenberg nursing home. Over the course of the change, an oral report from the district leadership on what is happening at the site is expected, he said.
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Looking at the available facts about the outbreak in the Lichtenberg nursing home, one expert said that information about the infection process at home may not have been passed on by the operator, and therefore the case escalated. There was talk of a “cloaking mechanism” within the carrier.
50 people tested positive, half of them nursing home residents
The outbreak was known on Friday. According to the district office, the medical officer decided to evacuate parts. For those affected, so far 46 locations have been found in other facilities, he said. These include hospitals, but also emergency rooms for care.
On Friday, 16 people were initially transferred to other facilities or to the hospital. According to information from Tagesspiegel, many of them are over 90 years old and their condition is sometimes very bad. Other residents were isolated in the building. More relocations are possible on Saturday, he said.
According to the district office, 50 people in the private operation house tested positive for the new corona virus on Friday. 27 of them were residents. The district office announced late at night that the others were employees or close contacts.
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Inquiries about the nursing home in the district showed that the district office is also affected by infection. According to information from Tagesspiegel, the spokesman for the district office, Prokop Bowtromiuk, tested positive for Corona, but is said to have been in town hall on Friday. “I isolated myself and put my computer in front of her to keep the press office running,” Bowtromiuk told Tagesspiegel on Saturday without confirming a possible infection. He had no contact with other district office employees on Friday.
BVV canceled last Thursday
Last Thursday’s district assembly had already been canceled, Bowtromiuk confirmed. “The council of elders and the chief have agreed on this due to the dynamic nature of the infection.” He did not give any number.
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According to information from Tagesspiegel, all employees at the district office had to be tested for the virus after City Councilor Martin Schaefer (CDU) apparently also tested positive on a rapid test.
Apparently it tested positive in the press spokesman and the city council.
Schaefer is actually a councilor for schools, sports, public order, environment and traffic, but has been representing ailing health councilor Katrin Framke (left, independent) for a long time.
Schaefer is currently in quarantine. A request from Tagesspiegel initially went unanswered, Schaefer referred to press spokesman Bowtromiuk, who declined to comment on individual infected people for data protection reasons. (with dpa)
