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• Oversupply of kits to care homes raises concern over Covid-19 test figures

  14-06-2020 18:42
  
  Staff report being sent double orders, amid suspicion kits sent are counted as tests doneCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCare homes are receiving far more coronavirus testing kits than they order, raising concern that the extra supplies help the government inflate the number of people it claims have been tested.The apparently widespread nature of the practice in England has prompted fresh suspicion that ministers are counting swab kits sent out as tests done in
  
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• 'Three weeks of hell': the peak of Covid-19 at hard-hit UK care home

  14-06-2020 17:34
  
  Carers and relatives of those who died at Melbury Court describe trying to cope with the outbreakCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageTears flowed at Melbury Court in Durham as the Covid-19 death toll ticked up toward 26, the worst known outbreak in a UK care home. Only 20 of its 82 residents, many of them with dementia, escaped infection.Peggy Dixon, a fervent football fan who liked to reminisce about the 1966 World Cup matches she had attended, succumbed on 14 May.
  
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