Since the first outbreak of covid-19, cases of mass infection have occurred in long-term care hospitals, long-term care homes and facilities housing people with severe disabilities, revealing how important it is to protect residential social welfare facilities from infectious diseases. Social welfare facilities are in the predicament of having to maintain essential services and contain the spread of covid-19. As residential care facilities are where service providers deliver services in face-to-face contact with their clients, it is all but impossible to do “physical distancing” there.
