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• Inspectors moving between Covid-hit England care homes without tests

  27-11-2020 16:10
  
  Leaks reveal fears of increased infection risk for residents and inspectorsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHealth inspectors in England have been moving between care homes with high levels of Covid-19 infection without being tested, raising fears they have put more residents at risk of catching the virus, leaks to the Guardian have revealed.In recent weeks all care home inspections carried out in the north of England have been of infected homes, including a faci
  
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• Rishi Sunak's failure to give councils the funding they need will cost lives

  27-11-2020 10:38
  
  Spending review’s ‘pork barrel’ handouts mark a new low in the blinkered relationship between central and local governmentCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageRishi Sunak’s spending review will cost lives and cause yet more cuts in local services. But he still found the cash for a red wall bung.If there were any lessons about spending priorities during the pandemic it is that investing in public health services saves lives, but Sunak offered n
  
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