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Thirty of the 34 residents at Home Farm Nursing Home tested positive for Covid-19
A third person died in a Skye nursing home where 57 people tested positive for coronavirus.
The outbreak was first detected at Home Farm’s independent care home in Portree last week.
The company that runs the house, HC One, confirmed that a third resident died on Tuesday, after the deaths of two people on Monday.
He said 30 of the 34 residents of the home and 27 employees were confirmed to have the virus.
An Army-led mobile test unit was installed in Skye after the outbreak.
Scottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman told the Scottish government’s daily briefing on Monday that all residents had been isolated in their rooms while the local GP and advanced professional nurse were conducting “medical evaluations.”
The GMB union later called for an investigation into the extent of the outbreak at Home Farm.
A report by the Care Inspectorate in January, prior to the UK coronavirus outbreak, raised some concerns about cleaning and staffing at home.
But the nursing home insisted that these were “resolved quickly” and that it had enough staff to maintain “high standards of cleanliness.”
