'In 11 days we lost nine of our residents': A care home manager on the cost of Covid

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dementia but who got himself up and dressed every day, told us he wasn’t feeling well. We had no idea whether it was the virus or not, but after a phone consultation with the doctor we were advised to call for an ambulance.

Dennis was wheeled out, but had to endure a 40-minute wait outside the home while the paramedics tried to get clearance to take him to A&E.Until then we thought we had escaped the wave and were quite proud of ourselves for keeping it at bay for so long.

In February we’d watched Covid creeping across the world and had taken stock of our PPE and cranked up our infection-control procedures.

I have been working in care homes for 10 years and come from a healthcare background so I thought we were well prepared. But then a few.