The daughter of an elderly patient at a Verdun long-term care facility says she’s outraged over new measures taken to contain the spread of COVID-19.
Anna Dubé is one of several residents forced out of her private rooms and into a common area in an effort to contain the outbreak.
The family’s concern is that the move will put her at greater risk of contracting the virus, but public health authorities consider it a calculated risk. “When you have symptomatic cases in a long-term care facility, you isolate them,” said Quebec’s health minister Danielle McCann. “So you have a hot zone and a cold zone.
The hot zone is where people have symptoms and are being tested for COVID-19 and the cold zone is the other people.” At the Manoir de Verdun