Covid-19: Nursing home outbreak, 10 patients have contracted the virus



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PORTO VIRO (Rovigo) – “There was an outbreak of Covid-19 infection in the Department of Medicine of the Madonna della Salute Nursing Home in Porto Viro, which affected 10 hospitalized patients in the general medicine unit “.

The Madonna della Salute Nursing Home announces this with an official press release “Seven of them are over eighty years old: therefore they are elderly patients, who, according to company protocol, had undergone a nasopharyngeal swab to search for the virus, being negative, a general precaution adopted before the admission of all patients treated in the facility. All staff in the ward have already been screened, however they are regularly screened and investigations are being extended to patients. in the other departments of the Nursing Home. As a precaution, a suspend admissions to the Department of Medicine and all the planned activities of the other specialized departments “.



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