UPDATE: Westmoreland County commissioners have decided to bring in the National Guard to assist at Westmoreland Manor.The role of the Guard will be to take over testing at the county-operated nursing facility, allowing management to return to normal duties.Commissioners met with Excela Health and the Regional Response Health Collaboration Program about the issue on Thursday.Of…
A security guard was shot dead and another injured when they came under attack from armed robbers in Cape Town.The two were ambushed inside their stationary vehicle on Saturday morning.Police spokesperson Colonel Andrè Traut said the victims were travelling in their vehicle when they experienced a mechanical problem along Duinefontein Road in Manenberg.He added the…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.California National Guard medical teams were sent to several nursing homes in Los Angeles County earlier this week to help stem the tide of the novel coronavirus outbreak.Reinforcements were sent to five facilities as part of a larger statewide effort to limit the…
For weeks, public health officials have struggled to slow the deadly spread of coronavirus through nursing homes. At one facility in Tulare County, 15 have now died. The death toll has reached 18 at a Yucaipa nursing home, 14 at a Pasadena facility and 17 at a convalescent hospital in Bell. And nursing homes account…
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