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Almost 10,000 people have now died in care homes in the UK.
But in South Korea not a single care home resident has died.
Adelina Comas-Herrera from LSE says one factor which helped was quarantining all residents who tested positive - taking them out of the home. #covid19
But in South Korea not a single care home resident has died.
Adelina Comas-Herrera from LSE says one factor which helped was quarantining all residents who tested positive - taking them out of the home. #covid19
And in Germany, the comparative figure is 3,500.
Health and Select Committee is currently hearing how Germany insisted that all residents test negative before being discharged into a home, with facilities to quarantine people for 14 days after leaving hospital.
Health and Select Committee is currently hearing how Germany insisted that all residents test negative before being discharged into a home, with facilities to quarantine people for 14 days after leaving hospital.
Labour's @SarahOwen_ asks how the UK government can describe its approach as a "success" when Hong Kong and South Korea have recorded not a single death in a care home with #covid19
Matt Hancock replies that we have done better than much of Europe.
Matt Hancock replies that we have done better than much of Europe.
Government has argued before that percentage of #covid19 deaths which take place in care homes in England and Wales is 26.7% (as of today’s ONS figs) compared with 37% in France, 53% in Belgium and 67% in Spain.
