N.B. COVID-19 roundup: Nursing home outbreak, province announces 3 deaths, 58 new cases
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Two residents, including a person in their 50s, and one employee at the Villa Renaissance nursing home in Dalhousie have died of COVID-19, according to Michael Keating, interim executive director of the New Brunswick Association of Nursing Homes. Seven employees and seven patients at the nursing home have tested positive for the virus since Wednesday.
Keating said the province has sent in people to help support staff at the Villa Rennaissance and that's allowing residents to get the care they need.
Keating said there are new measures in place to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Employees "have to change linens after visiting from one room to another, and then they can't go in and out without completely changing clothes," he said.
Some residents have had to switch rooms in order to separate people who've tested positive for the virus from those who have not contracted COVID-19.
Keating said employees are feeling the extra weight of these new measures and having lost a team member and two residents is lowering morale.
"The employees are terribly hurt, the only thing we can do is say prayers for them," said Keating.
On Sunday, the province reported three new deaths related to COVID-19 and 58 new cases.
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