Italian police on Tuesday
impounded what they said was a "completely illegal" care home
near Teramo in Abruzzo.
Staff at the bogus home were classed as farm labourers, police
said.
A COVID-19 cluster recently broke out at the facility and 20
people were infected with the virus, including almost all the
elderly residents and staff.
Four people died.
Far to the northwest at Sanremo, on the Ligurian Riviera, police
inspected a care home where a COVID cluster that has registered
90 positives and 14 victims among guests, plus 18 positives
among staff, since the start of the year.
Various care-home probes are ongoing across Italy, especially in
the northern Lombardy region which was hardest hit by the first
wave of the virus in March and April last year.
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