Access bans are among the protective measures in the Erbach district hospital, which currently looks after 17 corona patients and eleven suspected cases. Photo: Dirk Zengel
Over the weekend, the corona situation in the Odenwald district increased dramatically again: District Administrator Frank Matiaske spoke to this newspaper about Saturday as a “horror day”: after five more deaths, the number of deaths is related to a corona infection increased to eight people in a circle.
In addition, on Saturday the health department had to quarantine a second nursing home and a closed ward of another such facility. Of the eight residents who tested positive, the home is completely quarantined two died: One man belonged to the age group of 80 to 90-year-olds, the other was older than 90; both had previous illnesses.
