Thirty people have died at a single Greater Manchester care home having contracted coronavirus
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukLocal Democracy Reporting Service a team of community nurses was put together to go into care homes and help with infection control.
They also began swabbing staff and residents for the virus a week before the government advised testing to be carried out in care facilities.“Since then we’ve seen the number of cases and deaths in care homes plummet to the point that in two of the weeks in May we only had one excess death recorded,” Dr Patterson added.“Which I think is evidence that we managed to get on top of the very real problem of COVID-19 in care homes.”Without the care home data being included, there was also no evidence of ‘postcode hotspots’ of coronavirus in Oldham, Dr Patterson said.The list of names of people that had passed away.
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