The number of deceased residents of Puccini State care farm in Wolvega has risen to five. This is reported by spokesman Matthijs Bergsma of Zorggroep Alliade. He calls the outbreak “extremely sad”.
It was previously known that almost all residents (18 out of 20) had tested positive for the corona virus. These residents have been transferred to the Covid house in Anna Schotanus in Heerenveen. Five residents have already died here.
13 of the 23 staff members also tested positive. As a result, employees from other institutions now offer help. Two residents had tested negative and stayed behind in Wolvega. It is expected that some residents will be able to return to the care farm from Heerenveen in the short term.
Matthijs Bergsma says that there is still no idea how the virus could have spread around Wolvega. The GGD conducts source and contact research. The residents had not yet been vaccinated, a doctor would start on Thursday. Bergsma emphasizes that the institution itself cannot determine when people are vaccinated. “We do not determine the order.”
Puccini State is a small-scale residential care farm in the Frisian States. It is a care facility for people with dementia, Alzheimer’s or another form of memory loss, who can no longer live at home. The residential care farm offers space to 20 residents, who meet in two shared living rooms. You can cook together in the kitchen.
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