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• Can I, a coronavirus 'shielder', find consolation in lockdown? | John Sutherland

  28-06-2020 18:35
  
  As I reflect on the deaths of earlier Sutherlands, and the writers I’ve written books about, I find myself thinking of ProsperoCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNational hibernation the man called it. A refreshing winter snooze. For me what came to mind was not bears in the woods but imprisonment. “Lockdown” is jail jargon and it fitted.It was a version of the 19th-century philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s theory that incarceration should be iso
  
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• Covid-19: risk of death in UK care homes 13 times higher than in Germany

  28-06-2020 16:00
  
  Exclusive: figures show Britain second only to Spain among major European countriesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCare home residents were more likely to die of Covid-19 in the UK than in any of the major European countries apart from Spain, analysis of global data has revealed.The proportion of residents dying in UK homes was a third higher than in Ireland and Italy, about double that in France and Sweden and 13 times higher than Germany. The analysis of offic
  
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• Calls for national care service as crisis leaves homes in critical state

  28-06-2020 07:53
  
  Government urged to seize chance of reform, amid closure fears and claims NHS left some homes to fend for themselves Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSenior care leaders are calling for urgent reform of the way Britain’s elderly population is looked after with the creation of a new national service.As care homes emerge from the worst of the first wave of the pandemic, bodies representing owners, staff, residents and their relatives have all urged Boris John
  
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