Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Carl Nunnerley remembers well the day Matt Hancock told a press briefing that ministers had ‘tried to throw a protective ring around care homes right from the start’ of the outbreak.
That same day, May 15 2020, Carl sat at his beloved dad’s bedside and held his hand as he slipped away, his life sadly cut short by Covid-19.
James Nunnerley, 88, was the third resident at his care home to die from coronavirus. By that time - relatively close to the start of the pandemic - around half of care homes in Greater Manchester had suffered outbreaks of the virus.
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