Staff at nursing home with outbreak also worked at other facilities, officials said – KSAT San Antonio

SAN ANTONIO – “If someone important a serious serious warning call about COVID-19 in San Antonio, this is it,” Mayor Ron Nirenberg said as he started Friday’s briefing on the COVID-19 outbreak at a local nursing dwelling.

The mayor said that 67 of the 84 residents at Southeast Nursing & Rehabilitation on Southcross hang examined constructive for COVID-19. A form of residents passed away earlier this week, marking the ninth loss of life linked to the virus in Bexar County.

Eight of the 60 workers participants at Southeast Nursing & Rehabilitation hang examined constructive and are in self-isolation some distance from the flexibility, San Antonio Fireplace Chief Charles Hood said. Two of those infected workers participants worked in a minimum of seven products and services all the plot via the city, Hood said.

“We should always know the set up apart shared workers are occurring,” Metro Health Director Dr. Break of day Emerick said.

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Eleven residents hang examined negative to this level and are being kept in a separate a part of the building and are being cared for by a determined workers than in dejected health residents.

Health officers are sending notices to every nursing dwelling, detention heart and care facility in the city asking them to document every facility the set up apart their workers works.

Mayor Nirenberg said he’s alongside with to his emergency uncover a clause that might restrict nursing dwelling workers from working in more than one products and services.

“It’s right here, it’s lethal. Finish dwelling and don’t encourage the virus unfold,” Nirenberg said.

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Metro Health will test 17 diversified workers participants on the nursing dwelling this day, and health officers are peaceful attempting to contact 28 of the workers participants for sorting out. Metropolis officers urged any nursing dwelling facility employee who feels in dejected health to discontinue dwelling.

Emerick went even further, announcing that even those that are asymptomatic are alongside with to the unfold of COVID-19.

“Let me be very clear about this. We’re experiencing community unfold,” Emerick said. “Even when you don’t hang any symptoms, behave as when you enact.”

In a assertion sent after the knowledge conference, a city spokesperson outlined the next steps in the response:

“To employ the Finish Dwelling Work Get orders issued by the Mayor, Order and Governor, all nursing homes ought to peaceful be proscribing receive valid of entry to to all people except workers and family in raze-of-lifestyles instances. No pointless guests ought to peaceful enter nursing homes.

“All nursing homes ought to peaceful hang canceled neighborhood actions and communal meals products and services. Workers at every nursing dwelling ought to peaceful apply Facilities for Disease Retain a watch on (CDC) protocols for sanitizing surfaces, washing arms, and declaring safe distances.

“In some plot, there ought to peaceful now not be any in dejected health personnel at nursing products and services. Workers who’re now not feeling well ought to peaceful discontinue dwelling or bolt dwelling. Hold now not possibility spreading the sickness in the flexibility. If workers at these products and services if truth be told feel they’ve been uncovered to COVID-19 and are experiencing symptoms ought to peaceful call MedCom at 210-233-5970.

“The San Antonio Fireplace Department and the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District are visiting all 34 of the bottom rated nursing homes in the neighborhood to conduct facility assessments in every of them, which entails evaluating their infection alter and environmental health procedures. In some plot, the SAFD will test with all 68 nursing homes in the home all all over again to recount them of the technique for EMS transports from their products and services. To transfer a patient, they need to first contact MedCom. To boot to, the Metropolis will remind nursing homes of merely procedures to decrease the chance of a virus.”

COVID-19, the respiratory disease precipitated by the novel virus, stands for coronavirus disease 2019. The disease first looked in late 2019 in Wuhan, China, nonetheless unfold all over the sphere in early 2020, causing the World Health Organization to picture a virus in March.

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