Governor: dozens in Tennessee nursing house have virus
An outbreak of the brand new coronavirus at a Tennessee nursing home has forced the facility to be temporarily shut for cleaning with dozens of residents and staff members delivered into quarantine, Gov. Bill Lee's business office and a medical center said Sunday night.
A healthcare facility said without elaborating that two of the residents had died.
Tests results released Sunday show 59 additional citizens of the Gallatin Centre for Rehabilitation and Treatment tested great for the virus, while 33 associates of the nursing home's staff with confirmed conditions are now isolated at their homes, the governor's office said in a news release. Just how many total occupants had tested positive wasn't immediately clear.
The facility is in Gallatin, northeast of Nashville.
Sumner Regional INFIRMARY said Sunday on Facebook that 42 patients from the nursing residence have been admitted and are found in isolation after some tested positive for the virus. It explained the 59 further residents were along the way to be transported Sunday and Monday to the hospital.
The hospital statement said a total of two of the nursing real estate patients have died. It did not disclose if they had tested confident for the virus.
The state "is facilitating deep cleaning and disinfecting of the facility and providing supplemental support" for residents without the virus, the governor's office statement said.
The hospital said dozens more noncritical patients were being transported from the nursing residence to three various other hospitals.
"Our hearts will be with the people and their families and all those mourning loved types in this difficult time," the hospital said.
The nursing home said on Facebook that the cleaning of the facility would start Monday.
"Our mission because the beginning of this global pandemic has gone to come to be as proactive as possible, and we will continue steadily to do so to ensure your loved kinds safety," the nursing residence statement said.
The Tennessee Department of Health's website on Sunday listed seven deaths from the coronavirus but it wasn't known if the Sumner County deaths were among them. The website listed 1,537 verified situations of the virus, up 164 from Saturday.
For most people, the new coronavirus causes slight or moderate symptoms, such as for example fever and cough that get rid of in two to three weeks, and the majority of individuals recover. But severe cases can want respirators to survive, and with attacks spreading exponentially, hospitals across the country happen to be either bracing for a approaching wave of patients, or already struggling to keep up.
