Ministers have been blasted for their “shambolic” efforts to protect those most vulnerable to Covid-19 as more than 1,000 people were confirmed to have died in care homes.
Deaths in care homes in England and Wales have more than quadrupled from 217 to 1,043, Office of National Statistics data shows.
The devastating figures are on top of the virus hospital death toll which rose 828 to 17,337, yesterday. But they remain far short of warnings from the care sector that many thousands more have already died.
Prof Martin Green, chief executive of Care England, has warned the figure could now be as high as 7,500. Yet on February 25, Public Health England guidance said: “It remains very unlikely people receiving care in a care home or the community
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