defended its record, saying that the council had been better at identifying the virus than other authorities.“In particular, local officials believe that proactive testing and recognition of symptoms in care homes over the past three weeks has increased the number of cases that has been captured,” a council spokesperson said at the time.Figures provided by town hall in April showed that while the number of covid-19-related deaths in care homes was significantly higher in Salford than in any other Greater Manchester authority - more than double any other - the number of overall care home deaths in the city wasn’t much higher..
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