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As of April 13, 2020, 4:56 p.m.

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Quarantined: the Rohlfshagen residential park in Rümpel.

According to district administration, 72 people in the Rohlfshagen residential park in Rümpel (Stormarn district) tested positive for the coronavirus: 53 residents and 19 employees. The Stormarn District Health Department had already quarantined the facility after consulting with the home administration on Thursday. Two employees had previously been confirmed to have been infected with the virus. On Easter Sunday, subsequent tests on the 70 residents and 60 employees confirmed that more than half of the people had already been infected. With ten employees, the situation is still unclear: either they have not yet been tested or the result is not yet available.








A nurse massages the hands of an older person. © dpa-Bildfunk Photo: Oliver Berg

Corona: Rümpel nursing home under quarantine

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At a nursing home in Rümpel, 53 of the 70 residents tested positive for the coronavirus. So far, 19 of the 60 employees have had positive test results.

Infected personnel must also continue to work

According to the district, residents do not have any respiratory symptoms (such as shortness of breath) and there are only “occasionally mild symptoms” among employees. According to the district, the nursing home is primarily the home of demented and psychologically conspicuous residents. Family employees should continue to care for them if they tested positive but have no symptoms. Outside of work, nurses and their families or other roommates are in quarantine. According to the district, residents who have been negatively evaluated so far cannot be separated due to the spatial situation.

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