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Covid-19 outbreak at another West Lothian nursing home
Sign up to the weekly West Lothian Courier newsletter for the latest West Lothian news and sport.Another West Lothian nursing home has reported a Covid-19 outbreak.NHS Lothian told the Courier that a number of cases have been reported at Heatherfield Nursing Home in Armadale and they have closed down the home to visitors.Dr Duncan McCormick, consultant in Public Health Medicine, NHS Lothian, and chair of the Incident Management Team (IMT), said: “NHS Lothian’s Health Protection team is working closely with Heatherfield Nursing Home following a small number of positive Covid-19 cases.“The care home responded immediately following identification of the first case, closing the home to visitors, and arranging for whole home testing to be