Coronavirus: One in five deaths now linked to virus
Edna Summerfield, 94, died earlier this month after testing positive for coronavirus. Her family believes she contracted it at her care home in Birmingham before she went into hospital on 7 April.
"How many more elderly have got to die in care homes, infected by staff who don't know they have the virus?" she said."My mother in law didn't deserve the death she had. All the other residents are vulnerable in that care home now.
If the reports are right it could be that there has been a spike in deaths over the past fortnight or that death certificates are not picking up all the cases.Industry leaders from Age UK, Marie Curie, Care England, Independent Age and the Alzheimer's Society have written to Health Secretary Matt HancockIt comes after the government confirmed there had been coronavirus outbreaks at more than 2,000 care homes in England - although they did not specify the number of deaths that had occurred.
Britain's largest care home operator said coronavirus was present in two-thirds - 232 - of the group's care homes.
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