Health Service advice states all unaffected residents and staff should receive ‘prompt’ vaccinations once an outbreak begins.
But after three positive cases at Falcon House care home on January 11 doctors from the Eden Surgery said their staff would not enter until the residence was ‘Covid clear’.
Health Service advice states all unaffected residents and staff should receive ‘prompt’ vaccinations once an outbreak begins
A second assessment on January 20 found there was still ‘too high a risk’ for the vaccinating team to attend the Bishop’s Stortford care home and vaccinate the remaining residents. West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group (WECCG) said in a letter to relatives that it was ‘not safe’ for staff to enter the home because it posed a risk to other GP patients if they were exposed to the virus.