Revealed by Southern District Health Board (SDHB) acting quality and clinical governance solutions director Dr Hywel Lloyd at a board meeting, an exposure event has led to the majority of vulnerable residents at a Dunedin rest home contracting Covid-19.
The Dunedin-based rest home, that has not been identified, had 20 of its 26 residents infected with Covid, Lloyd said.
“The strategy is to manage the cases in the facility, and we’ve taken broad advice across our clinical teams, and also the experience from Canterbury around Rosewood. So we are supporting the facility there.”
The DHB was supporting aged-care facilities who were increasingly reporting staff who had Covid. Overall the number of Covid cases in the south were “holding steady”, but those numbers could be an underrepresentation of the actual numbers, particularly in Dunedin, Lloyd said.
