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At least 50 infected with coronavirus at retirement home in Mexico

May 8, 2020 9:56 AM

Published May 8, 2020 9:55 AM

(KYMA, KECY) - In a nursing home in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, at least 47 residents and three employees were infected with coronavirus, one of the largest outbreaks recorded in the world on Wednesday.

The health minister of Nuevo Leon, Manuel de la O, said that the infections were reported among the 98 residents and 48 staff at the Casa de Retiro Luis Elizondo in the municipality of Guadalupe, east of the state capital, Monterrey.

De la O later said that all 50 who tested positive for coronavirus were “stable” and that three of the residents had been taken to a hospital for treatment.

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