32 new cases involving elderly people living in nursing homes were identified on Thursday, which is of particular concern to the competent authorities as there has recently been an upsurge in nursing homes.
As the Cyprus Times informs, the 32 new cases in elderly people detected in just one day[/B] involve 8 different clusters of nursing homes across the country.
At the same time positive cases were also detected among the staff of the nursing homes.
At the same time positive cases were detected among the staff of the nursing homes. The new increase in cases in nursing homes has also brought admissions of residents to hospitals, while officials are looking for a way to stop the spread within the closed facilities.
As the Cyprus Times Times has learned, officials have already put on the table data showing the increase in positive cases and are trying to determine whether this is due to a relaxation of measures allowing relatives with a negative rapid test to be admitted to them, or a failure to observe other protective measures.
However, during the period when family members of residents were banned from entering, as reported to us by a competent source, there was a marked decrease in cases.
What about visits to nursing homes...
According to the decree of the Ministry of Health, only persons who have completed their vaccination programme and the 7-month period has not elapsed are allowed to enter nursing homes and closed facilities, or hold a certificate of infection and the 90-day period has not elapsed, or received the 3rd booster dose, provided that they present a negative rapid antigen detection testRapid test of the same day.
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