The hearing Wednesday involves a special measure to demand access to documents or other material involving decisions at nursing homes. Their complaint focuses on multiple issues at French homes for the elderly and disabled during the first half of 2020. After France recorded Europe’s first virus infections and deaths a year ago, French officials shut down nursing homes to outsiders and kept residents inside. Recognizing these concerns, President Emmanuel Macron relaxed some rules for nursing homes ahead of everything else as France’s first lockdown eased. And new waves of infections in the summer, fall and winter sent many nursing homes back into temporary, repeated shutdowns.

Source: Egypt Independent March 03, 2021 11:03 UTC