Index – Domestic – 56 other cases of suspected coronavirus in the nursing home in Pest

Coronavirus infection was confirmed or suspected in 56 other older people in the nursing home in Pest. They are transported to St. John’s Hospital by OMSZ ambulances and by bus. Due to massive illnesses in the institution, the national chief physician ordered the Metropolitan Municipality under maintenance to implement immediate measures. On Thursday, 126 caregivers were transported to the hospital, so only a total of 182 people infected with the coronavirus had to be transferred from the Pesti út institution to another institution.

• April 3 Five residents of the Pesti út nursing home had to be rushed to hospital on suspicion of coronavirus infection. The tests were positive in all five cases. A further 13 people were hospitalized with symptoms of suspected coronavirus, before the capital performed 200 tests of its own resources (i.e., a private laboratory) on samples taken from workers and residents who had been in contact with suspected cases of infection.
• April 7 The chief physician reported that 53 nurses and 12 nurses in Pesti út were coronaviruses, but not all had yet been examined.
• April 8 Mayor Gergely Christmas has asked the government to start testing elderly care as soon as possible. On the same day, the Metropolitan Defense Committee carried out an extraordinary inspection of several nursing homes operated by the Metropolitan Municipality. According to the Gergely Karácsony report, the investigation found that the institutions operate in accordance with the regulations of the authorities.
• April 9th The operational court announced that there were more than 100 infected and five dead in the Pesti út house. Christmas also only learned of the number of infected people at the press conference, though at the government meeting a day earlier he had been promised that the capital would receive the necessary information to defend itself against the operating tribe. Cecília Müller, along with her colleagues, visited the Pesti úti institution, where she stated that she found nothing reassuring about hygiene. At the same time, Erzsébet Gy. Németh also met with the national medical director, according to whom the government had launched several investigations at institutions maintained in the capital and these investigations found that everything was in order.
• April 10th On Friday morning, the number of infected people in the Pest Road home had risen to 151, and the number of people who died per week. The national medical director announced that 126 infected people had been transported from the Pesti út home to Korányi Hospital, and ordered that the home staff be educated because they had “discovered problems” with disinfection.

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