A nursing home where a short-term patient died on Saturday has at least five other patients who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to a spokesman for Athena Health Care Systems, which owns the Stafford Springs facility.

Four of the patients who tested positive have been isolated in the Evergreen Health Care Center and the other is in the hospital, spokesman Timothy Brown said.

A deep cleaning of the nursing home was done after the first positive test was announced and all employees will now wear personal protective gear when dealing with any patients, Brown said.

The 88-year-old man who died had been at Evergreen for a week. The assisted living facility in Ridgefield where he had lived before has at least one other person with the virus, Ridgefield First Selectman Rudy Marconi said.