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• The shameful failures that threw care home residents to Covid | Letters

  30-05-2021 17:51
  
  Readers on the government’s mistakes and neglect that meant elderly patients were discharged to care homes, without a Covid test, at the height of the pandemicI am no fan of Dominic Cummings but I am pleased that the evidence he gave last week has opened up the conversation regarding discharges to care homes (Dominic Cummings says PM had no plan to protect vulnerable people from Covid, 25 May).I am a nurse and during the first wave of Covid-19 I was on a ward that was caring for elderly pa
  
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• ‘Cummings is just bitter’: Clacton’s residents dismiss attacks on PM

  30-05-2021 11:30
  
  In the seaside resort, which has by one measure the worst Covid death rate in England, Boris Johnson’s popularity remains undimmedCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageClacton-on-Sea forms part of the area run by Tendring district council, which, if you go by “cause of death” on death certificates, has the highest rate of death from Covid-19 in England. If measured by the number of deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test, Tendring comes a clos
  
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