By Tom Tapp
08.04.2020 - 03:11 / deadline.com
By David Robb
Labor Editor
Two residents at the MPTF’s skilled nursing facility in Woodland Hills have died of complications from COVID-19, and four staffers have tested positive for the virus.
The MPTF reported the first case of coronavirus on March 31, and six more on April 3. “We lost a resident yesterday and a second one today,” said Bob Beitcher, president and CEO of the Motion Picture & Television Fund.
Both residents were male and both had compromised immune systems. The first died at
Up to half of the coronavirus deaths in Europe are care home residents, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.
By Dave McNary
A Scottish prison officer has died from coronavirus.
One in six Covid-19 deaths in Greater Manchester has been in a care home, new figures released today show.
By Anita Bennett
“What I believe, regardless of what I may have come across as saying, is we need widespread testing and continued protection of the high-risk portion of the population,” the TV host, 69, said during a Facebook Live on Friday, April 17. “Last night I said we as a society have chosen to live with certain controllable deadly risk every day, smoking, auto crashes, swimming and, yes, I know that those are not contagious, so probably bad examples.”
By Dave McNary
The total number of deaths from coronavirus is 15% higher than previously reported, according to figures from the Official of National Statistics (ONS).
By Erik Pedersen
A care home hit by Covid-19 yesterday reported seven deaths in just over a week.
A tragedy-hit care home which has seen 16 deaths in the coronavirus crisis allowed a wife to visit her husband despite a lock-down being in place, it is claimed.
By Patrick Frater
A number of residents at Castle View Care Home in Dumbarton have died as a result of suspected coronavirus.