Emmanuel Macron

deaths are invisible, coffins are hard to hide.

Outside the Rothschild nursing home In Paris , a delivery truck pulls up to unload, its pale-wood cargo, still wrapped in plastic factory.

A Delivery Man told a waiting journalist, it is "non-stop".

The goals of the care home are tightly closed. Sixteen people have died here from suspected coronavirus, and a further 80 are infected.

More Than a third of the nursing facilities in the Paris region alone-are thought to be affected with coronavirus. But while the hospital-death recorded cases in The Daily death toll from coronavirus, deaths in nursing homes.

Alexander Sanner works as a doctor for further care at home, in the Vosges, in The East of France, where at least 20 people have been killed.

"There was a group of About Fifty people, with a fever, followed by severe pneumonia," He Said . "At The Height of the epidemic here, it's 25 to 30 patients on oxygen. "

Some of the cases in France are in the retirement homes ever tested for The Virus once an outbreak has been confirmed. But day after day, stories of double-digit death-toll within these institutions today practically shutters from the outside world. arise,

such As Italy and Spain have seen So Far , Europe's largest and most deadly outbreaks, the elderly in nursing homes have to bear the heaviest load, enclosed in double crises-mass-infection and staffing shortages.

In Italy, hundreds of deaths have been reported in homes, in Bergamo, in The North , while the 83 seniors of the staff go went without food at home for Two Days in The South , because had to be in quarantine.

Alarm in runaway rates in Spain, care homes, initially in Madrid, Monte Hermoso , centre, of which at least 20 have died from the coronavirus. Military units were dispatched to the nursing homes around the country, provides emergency aid and disinfection, More Than 1,300 centers.

The Arrival of the authorities is often Too Late . Twenty-three people were found dead in a Madrid stay, including two nuns, the care.

In a house at Alcoy, near Alicante, of 26 of 130 inhabitants died. More Than 1,600 residents of nursing homes died in The First four weeks of March, with More Than half of them believed to be victims of Covid like-19.

related expression of anger at the lack of information about the outbreaks, while the workers explain that inadequate staffing and lack of protective clothing will quickly lead to a state of collapse as a supervisor with The Virus and need to self-isolate.

France is the introduction of a new app to count on coronavirus cases in the nursing home and include these in their national targets. France is the senior health official declared that the numbers could spiral as a result.

The speed of the epidemic has race to leave the government to catch up.

at the beginning of March, the President of Emmanuel Macron , visited to talk to a nursing home, protection against The Virus . He was filmed sitting at a table, surrounded by elderly residents: no face-masks; no social distance.

there were A couple of days later, all visits were prohibited by France, old people's homes. And last week, the government said all residents should be individually isolated in their rooms.

But the nurses say that they are now the biggest danger for the inhabitants.

We spoke with a nurse who wanted to known only as "Carol". You said that some houses had to keep masks in reserve for a Corona-Virus outbreak, and not giving them to the employees.

And many employees are ill or isolated themselves, she says, the spread of this virus is very difficult to control.

"as soon as the Corona Virus occurs in a nursing home, it's over," she told me.

"There is nothing we can do. Since we don't have enough staff, it will be dramatic. Once The Virus cases in the apartment, there are a large number of deaths. "

place in the hospital, life-support units in the Paris region is now very low, and there is a lack of some drugs.

The health Minister has said France will start mass testing of its population, and ordered a billion of face-masks for the protection of the medical staff.

The Prime Minister , Edouard Philippe , with the extension of The National quarantine for two more weeks.

"The battle has only just begun," He Said , and warned that The First half of April will be "even more difficult" than the previous 15 Days .

Each night, the French inhabitants stood at the open window and applaud the country's medical personnel.

solidarity with physicians, nurses and care-home-workers is one thing. But surveys suggest that confidence has fallen in the government, even before The Wave of epidemic has reached its peak.

Source of news: bbc.com