Nursing homes and other senior living centers are having to constantly adapt during the coronavirus emergency, and those facilities in Georgia are now under tighter restrictions as public health officials work to protect the most vulnerable population facing the virus.
Earlier this week, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp extended the state’s shelter-in-place order that requires residents to stay at home and for businesses that are deemed non-essential to close.
Along with the shelter-in-place extension, Kemp also put tighter restrictions on nursing homes, residential hospices, assisted living centers, personal care homes and other similar facilities.
Those restrictions include canceling group activities and meals and requiring nursing home workers who test positive for the coronavirus to be quarantined.
The Georgia Department of Public Health announced Friday that more than 400 residents of 80 senior living facilities across the state had tested positive for COVID-19.