French nursing home learns costly lessons on containing coronavirus

Workers wearing protective suits enter in Korian La Riviera retirement home (Ehpad) in Mougins where numerous residents have died with coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as the spread of the disease continues in France, April 9, 2020. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

PARIS (Reuters) - When managers at La Riviera nursing home on France's Cote D'Azur found out a resident had the COVID-19 virus, they put into action a standard playbook they believed would contain the spread. It did not.

"We kept on seeing new cases and we could not understand why," said Antoine Ruplinger, an executive with the company that runs the home.