Frankfurt Bockenheim: Coronavirus outbreak in refugee accommodation

• In Frankfurt are in one Refugee accommodation 65 refugees and two employees corona infected
• The non-infected residents are under quarantine posed that Corona infected moving
• As a consequence of that Corona outbreak there is a new rule for Shared accommodation

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Frankfurt – In a refugee accommodation in Frankfurt, 65 refugees and two Red Cross employees met with the Corona virus infected. Like the city Frankfurt said is a resident of the Bockenheim located accommodation with Symptoms been taken to the hospital. Thereupon the contact persons of the man and then all other residents were tested last week. Around 50 people would still be tested.

Frankfurt: Corona virus in refugee accommodation – infected people are isolated

In response to the outbreak, the city said 11 infected refugees were taken to a hotel, 52 more refugees and their families were isolated inside the building and are scheduled to move to another hotel on Friday. The two employees of the Red Cross are in domestic quarantine. The approximately 300 non-infected residents of the accommodation are placed under quarantine there for two weeks under the supervision of the health authority. They also have to wear breathing masks outside of their rooms.

As was further communicated, the Red Cross had tightened the hygiene rules in the accommodation since mid-March, provided disinfectants and had the sanitary facilities cleaned more frequently. Since March 18, all residents of the property have been prohibited from visiting. They also distributed mouth-nose protection and informed the residents.

Corona virus in refugee accommodation in Frankfurt – consequence of outbreak

As a consequence of the outbreak, the Frankfurt Health Authority has ordered that breathing masks must be worn in all community accommodations for refugees or homeless people. One hopes that everyone involved will understand, said Health Department head Stefan Majer (Greens).

Timmo Scherenberg from the Hessian Refugee Council told the Frankfurter Rundschau that the outbreak shows the general problem of large shared accommodation. “Despite all the measures, the form of mass accommodation is simply unsuitable to accommodate people in the long term, especially in times of Corona,” said Scherenberg. In the facilities, residents could not effectively keep their distance. Large accommodations would have to be dissolved and the refugees housed in decentralized apartments.

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