High impact of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities, suggestion for monitoring in the EU/EEA, May 2020

Residents in long-term care facilities (LTCF) are a vulnerable population group. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-related deaths in LTCF residents represent 30–60% of all COVID-19 deaths in many European countries. This situation demands that countries implement local and national testing, infection prevention and control, and monitoring programmes for COVID-19 in LTCF in order to identify clusters early, decrease the spread within and between facilities and reduce the size and severity of outbreaks.

Source: Eurosurveillance - June 4, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: ECDC Public Health Emergency Team, Kostas Danis, Laure Fonteneau, Scarlett Georges, C ôme Daniau, Sibylle Bernard-Stoecklin, Lisa Domegan, Joan O’Donnell, Siri Helene Hauge, Sara Dequeker, Eline Vandael, Johan Van der Heyden, Françoise Renard, Natalia Source Type: research