EODY staff, after conducting trial tests on prisoners and staff at the Agios Vasilios Nursing Home in Xanthi, revealed that twenty-six prisoners tested positive for the coronavirus. coronavirus practically without symptoms, as well as ten people in the staff of the institution.

The Chairman of the Board of Directors of Agios Vasilios Nursing Home, Ioannis Papachronis, in a statement, spoke about the difficult situation the institution has been in in recent days, highlighting, among other things: “The coronavirus has finally entered our nursing home. from asymptomatic or asymptomatic carriers, visitors and staff. Despite the security measures, he succeeded and defeated us.”

“All incidents,” Mr. Papachronis continues in the announcement, “are currently being treated with only DEPON and vitamins, a special diet, maximum possible isolation, and constant measurements of temperature and oxygen. Only one elderly woman is admitted to Xanthi hospital due to low oxygen levels. In the meantime, we inform friends and relatives that the situation is under control on our part. However, all family visits are suspended until further notice, and updates or communication will be by phone. Please join us in our prayers for a happy ending to this adventure. We have been taught difficult things for years, we have been forged through difficulties.

The president of the nursing home also detailed the additional measures the facility has been taking over the past few months to protect inmates and staff, stressing that “Thirty months into the coronavirus pandemic, we have been making superhuman efforts and dedicated unprecedented resources to protect our heart’s nursing home. We have implemented our own protocols for additional protection and security, in combination with the instructions of EODY and the Greek state.”

“We have passed unscathed,” he continues in the announcement, “all stages of the mutation of the virus and even its most complex and deadly forms. We have vaccinated our staff and our grandparents three times, and we have been waiting for the fourth reminder dose since April. However, the time has come, in an era when this mutation is very contagious, unfortunately, and we have to live through this experience.

Source: RES-IPE