Suspected coronavirus outbreak at Glasgow care home after 13 die | The Guardian |

Two staff members at the Burlington Court care home, where all victim's lived, are being treated in separate hospitals after testing positive for Covid-19.

The residents all had underlying health conditions and it is not yet confirmed whether they had died from the disease as tests are carried out upon hospital admission only.

A spokeswoman for Four Seasons Health Care, which runs Burlington Court, said it had "strict protocols on infectious diseases" and that it was closely monitoring the health of the other residents and colleagues.

The government knows and should know that inadequate PPE is a threat to doctors', nurses' and paramedics' lives. Under Art 2 ECHR's positive obligations, the UK must take steps to protect their lives with the urgent provision of PPE. #protectthefrontline [_link]

— Elizabeth Stubbins Bates (@estubbinsbates) March 30, 2020

Nursing homes overwhelmed by coronavirus: 'It is impossible for us to stop the spread' | NBC News |

Alone and vulnerable (3/3): Don't let the elderly backslide during coronavirus confinement [_link] pic.twitter.com/H66fVdGxC8

— FRANCE 24 (@FRANCE24) April 4, 2020

Filed this for the Observer on how years of neglect of care for the elderly and disabled was providing a breeding ground for Coronavirus....[_link]

— Nick Cohen (@NickCohen4) April 4, 2020

• 5532 deaths in hospitals, an increase of 441 in the past 24 hours.
  
• Figures for nursing home deaths now come at 2028 deaths; the count may still not be complete (1416 were accounted for yesterday).
  
• 6838 patients in intensive care nation wide, "a record", concentrated in the Northeast, North and Paris regions. Additional ICU beds have been set up in the past month: total capacity is about 10000; the government wants to increase up to 14000.
  
• Hundreds ICU patients have been transferred from overloaded regions to the Southwest (like Bordeaux) or Brittany (Rennes, Brest), where the number of cases is much less than the rest of the country, and also to neighboring Germany, Switzerland and Luxembourg. Depending on the distance, patients transfers were done by ambulance, military airplane, helicopter and even high-speed train ("anything that drives, anything that flies", according to an official).