• Releasing English hospital patients into care homes 'not illegal'

    Releasing English hospital patients into care homes 'not illegal'
    Government hits back at court challenge to its handling of pandemic in care homesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageReleasing hospital patients into care homes without Covid-19 tests was not illegal, lawyers for the UK health secretary, Matt Hancock, have said in a rebuttal of a high court challenge to the government’s handling of the pandemic in care homes.Dr Cathy Gardner, who lost her father, Michael Gibson, to Covid-19 in a care home that accepted dischar
  • Independent SAGE warns on relaxation of social distancing measures

      INDEPENDENT SAGE warns that it is not safe to relax social distancing rules for indoor settings and that the government’s proposal to reduce to 1 metre will ‘effectively end’ social distancing in Britain. The Sunday Telegraph reports that the government plans to announce reducing the social distancing limits from 2 metres to 1 metre […]

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