A care home hit by Covid-19 yesterday reported seven deaths in just over a week.
But Glasgow City Council, which operates Riverside Care Home in Dalmarnock, said only three of these deaths were suspected to be from the virus.
We told earlier this week how 17 residents were in isolation at the home and two members of staff were being treated in hospital with confirmed coronavirus.
A spokeswoman for Glasgow’s Health and Social Care Partnership said yesterday: “Our thoughts go out to everyone affected.”
The council said staff have access to a full range of personal protection equipment at Riverside.
In Edinburgh, two elderly residents at Letham Park care home have also died from coronavirus, with two more suspected.
A spokesman for Renaissance Care, who run the care home, confirmed there has been four deaths in the past week.
He said two are confirmed Covid-19 cases with a further two deaths suspected to be the cause.
Ten other residents are showing symptoms of the virus.
One resident who tested positive is improving they said.
