When Elizabeth Lane had a 30- minute visitation with her mother at Newmarch House on Friday afternoon, social-distancing conditions were rigorous.
The pair were separated by a 2-metres range, 2 layers of metal fencing and face masks that made talking tough however which they were not allowed to remove.
” It did very much resemble jail,” Ms Lane states, wryly.
But with such stringent going to restrictions, she is raising questions over how coronavirus has actually managed to rise through the home.
” If we need to have that kind of distance and Mum is negative, how is that being protected within the house with the motion [of staff and residents] they have actually got,” she said.
” It baffles me.”
She stated her mother, who was bed bound, was wheeled through the Lawson wing– among the worst-hit places in the house– into the yard for Friday’s visit.
Elsewhere, she said, some COVID-19 favorable patients were being wa