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Care home offers hope in coronavirus fight after 23 residents survive deadly infection

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A care home where 36 ­residents and staff coasted through a ­major coronavirus outbreak has given scientists fresh hope. Covid-19 infected 23 dementia ­sufferers at the specialist home, ­including a husband terminally ill with cancer.

Yet not one person at Cheaney Court suffered ­anything but mild symptoms, and none needed hospital treatment. A leading professor dared to suggest that the care home’s great escape could be proof the virus is “weakening”.

Prof Karol Sikora, a former WHO director, cited doctors in Italy who last week claimed the virus had ­“enormously weakened”.

He said: “What has happened at this care home is fascinating. It would be very useful to study. The most likely explanation is the virus has mutated. “So although it

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