Three women over 90 recover from coronavirus at Nahariya hospital

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In this photo taken on Wednesday April 1, 2020, an Aid worker from the Spanish NGO Open Arms talks to an elderly woman before a test at a nursing home in Barcelona, Spain. The initiative is part of a clinical trial led by doctors Oriol Mitja and Bonaventura Clotet, from the Lluita Foundation against AIDS and the Germans Trias Hospital, focused on cutting down virus transmission. Spain has seen Thursday a new record in virus-related fatalities that came as the country is seeing the growth of contagion waning, health ministry data showed placing Spain neck to neck with Italy, the country that saw the worst outbreak in Europe. The COVID-19 coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.(AP Photo/Santi Palacios)

This article was originally published by The Times of Israel
on April 9, 2020

The patients, the eldest of whom is 97, return to the city’s Freemasons Nursing Home; three other residents remain hospitalized, with mild symptoms

Three elderly women aged over 90 recovered from the coronavirus Thursday and were released from the Galilee Medical Center in the northern town of Nahariya.

The three, aged 91, 96 and 97, returned to Nahariya’s Freemasons Nursing Home, which has seen several virus cases. Three other residents of the facility, aged 75, 85 and 93, remain hospitalized, but all are suffering only mild symptoms, the hospital said.

Also Thursday, the Health Ministry said it had started a program of testing for elder care facilities with residents or staff members diagnosed with coronavirus, as the death toll continued to rise in nursing homes. Channel 12 news reported that 23 of 79 deaths in the country as of Thursday were from elder care facilities — almost 30 percent of deaths.

The Magen David Adom emergency service will carry out some 3,000 tests a day in the coming days as part of the program, according to the announcement.

The deaths of six more people were announced Thursday, at least two of whom lived in assisted living centers for the elderly. One of the fatalities was an 84-year-old man who lived at the Mishan assisted living facility in the southern city of Beersheba, raising the number of people who died of the coronavirus there to 11. In addition, an 86-year-old man who lived at the Yokra elder care home in the town of Yavne’el died at the Baruch Padeh Medical Center in the northern city of Tiberias, the fourth death from that facility. There were eight new deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday, including two residents of Mishan and another from Yokra. The Nofim Tower assisted living center in Jerusalem has also been hard hit by the virus outbreak, with four fatalities from the facility. In addition there were three deaths at the Bulgarian home in Rishon Lezion. The novel coronavirus has been spreading quickly in nursing homes around the country, raising intense concern for the safety of elderly residents.

On Sunday, the Prime Minister’s Office asked the Defense Ministry and Home Front Command to assist the Health Ministry with operational aspects of nursing homes.

The ministry said Thursday there have been 9,755 people diagnosed with the virus, an increase of 351 in the past 24 hours. There were 165 people in serious condition, 119 of whom are on ventilators. Another 171 were in moderate condition, with the rest having mild symptoms.So far, 864 Israelis have recovered from the virus. Almost all of those who have died from COVID-19 in Israel have been elderly and suffered from preexisting conditions, according to hospital officials.