Saturday, 04 Apr 2020 09:24 AM MYT
With hospitals stretched to breaking point, the elderly are being turned away, and the care homes, lacking staff and appropriate equipment, must do what they can for the sick and dying. Of a total of 3,000 deaths recorded at Madrid nursing homes in the past month, regional leader Isabel Diaz Ayuso said around 2,000 were likely to have been the result of coronavirus, though it was unclear how many of those appear in official figures due to a lack of testing.Like seven other private care homes in the area, it has been taken over by regional authorities.
A lack of testing kits was preventing staff confirming whether or not the patients had contracted the disease.
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