Lombardy to reopen care homes (7)

(ANSA) - Milan, June 9 - Lombardy is to resume admittances to care homes which had been suspended amid a spate of COVID-19 deaths, regional welfare councillor Giulio Gallera said Tuesday.
    Gallera said no people who have positive for the coronavirus would be admitted.
    "The new rules will be very rigid," he said.
    "No (COVID-19) positive (person) will be placed inside a care home and will instead be put into a health facility".
    Several probes are ongoing into the disproportionately high mortality rate at care homes in Lombardy and the rest of Italy.
    Lombardy has had about half Italy's 33,500 coronavirus deaths.