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. 2020 Jun;25(22):2000956.
doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.22.2000956.

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

ECDC Public Health Emergency Team  1 ; Kostas Danis  2 , Laure Fonteneau  2 , Scarlett Georges  2 , Côme Daniau  2 , Sibylle Bernard-Stoecklin  2 , Lisa Domegan  3   4 , Joan O'Donnell  4 , Siri Helene Hauge  5 , Sara Dequeker  6 , Eline Vandael  6 , Johan Van der Heyden  6 , Françoise Renard  6 , Natalia Bustos Sierra  6 , Enrico Ricchizzi  7 , Birgitta Schweickert  8 , Nicole Schmidt  8 , Muna Abu Sin  8 , Tim Eckmanns  8 , José-Artur Paiva  9 , Elke Schneider  10
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High impact of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities, suggestion for monitoring in the EU/EEA, May 2020

ECDC Public Health Emergency Team et al. Euro Surveill. 2020 Jun.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: COVID-19; EU/EEA; long-term care facilities; surveillance.

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