COVID-19 outbreak reported in Beeville nursing facility
More than 20 residents of a nursing home in Beeville have tested positive for COVID-19.
An automated message to Hacienda Oaks Nursing & Rehabilitation alerts callers of 21 residents who have tested positive for the virus. None of the residents have recovered. Three additional COVID-19 tests for residents are pending, the message says.
There are also 23 nursing home employees who have tested positive for the virus, two of which have recovered. There are six employee COVID-19 tests pending, according to the message.
No COVID-19 related deaths have been reported at the facility.
"We have isolated all of those residents who have tested positive from the remaining residents in a separate wing of the building and removed the positive employees from the facility," the message says. "Those unaffected residents are being attended to in their rooms to avoid infection."
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(Corpus Christi Caller-Times)