Nursing Homes reopen to visits from the end of this month

Visits to institutionalized elderly people in homes in the Region will be possible later this month.

Assurance from the President of the Regional Government, who justified it, and has backed down to what he had said this week.

As “the vaccination process for the household staff is almost complete and we will, if everything goes as it has been going so far, we will proceed to open the homes to visitors, with the appropriate distance as happened before, starting on the 30th March “, that is, from the week of Easter week.

Just this week Miguel Albuquerque had stated that changing the rules in homes would never occur before group immunity was achieved, that is, at best, it would only be possible in the beginning of autumn.

From Diário Notícias