Care workers hit back at Matt Hancock’s claim staff brought Covid to care homes

In his book, Pandemic Diaries, Matt Hancock writes: ‘The vast majority of infections were brought in from the wider community, mainly by staff.’ Photograph: Maja Smiejkowska/Reuters

Care workers have hit back at claims by the former health secretary Matt Hancock that the Covid virus was brought into homes by infected staff.

In his book, the Pandemic Diaries, which is being serialised in the Daily Mail, Hancock said only a small proportion of cases were caused by his decision to discharge patients from hospital without testing.