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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Maryam Zakir-Hussain and Athena Stavrou

Covid inquiry live: Families say care home residents were ‘left to die’ after damning report

Care home residents were left to “die alone,” bereaved families have said, as a damning new report in the Covid-19 inquiry has been published today.

There were more than 43,000 recorded care home deaths involving Covid-19 between March 2020 and July 2022, the report said, and inquiry hearings last year heard a civil servant describe the toll as a “generational slaughter within care homes”.

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