ALL residents at a care home in Lanarkshire are self-isolating after workers tested positive for coronavirus.
Four members of staff at the Highgate Care Home in Uddingston have tested positive for Covid-19 and the care home has required all residents to isolate.
We told in May that more than 20 residents at the Lanarkshire care home had died either from or with suspected Covid-19.
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The home is now shut to all non-essential visitors and the care home emphasised it had "robust" infection control procedures in place.
A spokeswoman for the home said: “Following a small number of colleagues testing positive, we are taking the necessary precautions to minimise the risk of transmission to other colleagues and residents.
"This includes continuing to implement our robust infection control measures and closing the home to non-essential visitors. As a precaution, all residents are self-isolating. The affected colleagues began isolating immediately following the positive result, and we wish them all a speedy recovery.
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“We are working closely with our local health and care partners and are in regular contact with the next of kin of our residents at Highgate to keep them updated of the situation.”
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