New York nursing home reports 98 coronavirus deaths in ‘horrifying’ outbreak
The Manhattan facility is one of many affected in the US and UK, while a home in Sydney threatens to become the biggest source of deaths in Australia
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A nursing home in New York has reported a “horrifying” death toll of 98 people from the coronavirus as residential facilities continued to emerge as a deadly source of outbreaks across the world.
The death toll at the Isabella Geriatric Center in Manhattan is one of the worst such outbreaks in the United States and caused a shock even in hard-hit New York after an official state tally of nursing home deaths listed only 13 at the home as of Friday.
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