Positive Santa Claus in retirement home: 18 deaths from covid

Published on: 12/27/2020 7:12 PM

Eighteen people died and 121 were infected with Covid-19. It is the toll of an outbreak that broke out in a nursing home in the Belgian city of Mol, in the province of Antwerp, after the visit earlier this month by a man disguised as Santa Claus, who had come to the facilities to meet with the elderly and raise them. your morale a bit in view of the holidays. Three days later, the man became ill and tested positive.

According to local media, five guests of the nursing home died between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, while among those infected there are 36 health workers and staff.