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• Hancock's claim over care homes test target disputed by Labour

  07-06-2020 19:46
  
  Health secretary says all those in care settings have had tests despite some only just arrivingCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe government has claimed to have hit its target of testing all care workers and elderly residents by 6 June, even though some of the tests have just been delivered rather than completed.Matt Hancock, the health secretary, said tests have now been offered to every care home for over-65s or those with dementia, with kits delivered to nea
  
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• COVID testing overlooks parts of social care – Parity required across adult social care

  07-06-2020 14:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG) is calling for full parity in the government’s social care COVID-testing programme after it announced the roll out of ‘whole care home testing’. The Department of Health and Social Care announced that from today, 7 June 2020, care homes catering for adults with learning disabilities or mental health needs, […]
  
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• More than half of England’s coronavirus-related deaths will be people from care homes

  07-06-2020 08:05
  
  Toll could hit 34,000 among country’s most vulnerable residents by end of June, estimates expert study Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCare home residents are on course to make up more than half the deaths caused directly or indirectly by the coronavirus crisis in England, according to a new analysis.The study warns that the death toll by the end of June from Covid-19 infections and other excess deaths is “likely to approach 59,000 across the entire
  
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