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• Boris Johnson says government did everything it could to limit Covid deaths

  26-01-2021 19:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Prime minister said it was ‘hard to compute the sorrow’ contained in the UK’s total of more than 100,000 deaths‘A huge loss’: tributes to victims of the UK’s Covid second waveCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBoris Johnson has insisted his government “did everything we could” to limit coronavirus deaths and expressed sorrow after the total UK death toll exceeded 100,000 on nearly every metric, but refused to discuss
  
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• ONS figures show UK passed 100,000 Covid deaths by 7 January

  26-01-2021 14:51 via theguardian.com
  
  New data reveals the milestone total was passed a week earlier than previously thoughtCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe UK passed a total of 100,000 deaths due to Covid-19 on 7 January, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics, which has also released data showing that deaths in care homes in England and Wales have risen to their highest level since last May.The date is earlier than was previously estimated, due to figures being revised
  
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• Wellington’s Star Fish Bar serves up the best suppers to Somerset care home!

  26-01-2021 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The staff of a Somerset fish and chip shop have won praise for their helpful attitude from a local dementia care home for ‘making no bones’ about taking long and complicated orders and never complaining if the order has to be changed.  The tasty takeaway fish and chip suppers cooked up by Star Fish Bar in Wellington are proving a winner with residents of neighbouring Camelot House and Lodge who say they spark memories of happy times shared with family and friends. When resi
  
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• Caterham nursing home becomes first in region to vaccinate all residents against Covid-19

  26-01-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tupwood Gate Nursing Home, part of Cygnet Health Care, has become the first nursing home in East Surrey to vaccinate its residents.All residents at the Caterham home were vaccinated on Thursday, January 7th, after Tupwood Gate’s Matron Sue Stepney and Deputy Matron Paula Deadman signed up to join the Alliance for Better Care vaccination team, which is delivering the Covid-19 Vaccination Programme across East Surrey and Mid-Sussex.Sue and Paula completed a course in both the Pfizer and Astr
  
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