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Date Published: 28/07/2021
ARCHIVED - Four months since last Covid death at elderly nursing homes in Alicante
Vaccines stem Covid risk at nursing homes in the Valencia region's three provinces, including Alicante.
Despite a rise in infections across the Valencia region, there have been no reported Covid-related deaths in elderly nursing homes since March - a stark contrast to the 740 residents who lost their lives due to the pandemic in January.
But while vaccination appears to be having the desired effect - 100 per cent of 80-year-olds and 97 per cent of those aged between 70 and 79 in the region have received both jabs - the region's Ministry of Health has warned that the virus is "still very present", with active cases in 55 centres across the region, "though Covid is not wreaking the havoc it did in the first waves".
The immunisation of residents and staff at all centres in the region was completed in March, and, according to the Ministry's health data, 164 residents and 120 workers have since tested positive. To give a comparison, a total of 3,675 positive cases were registered in January.
In regards to the current active cases, the region's Minister of Health, Ana Barceló, has stressed they are "mostly asymptomatic or with very mild symptoms", which "demonstrates the good result the vaccination has had in protecting the most vulnerable".
She also points out that in January, 200 elderly nursing homes were affected by the pandemic - almost four times more centres with far more positives and critically ill patients.
Last week, an Alicante nursing home closed its doors and has suspended family visits over a Covid outbreak, but to give the situation perspective, an "outbreak" is declared at a nursing facility when a single case is detected amongst residents or staff, and is considered an outbreak for 28 days after the last positive was confirmed - even if no further infections are registered.
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