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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Sam Blewett & Kieren Williams

Death at migrant processing centre 'may have been caused by a diphtheria infection'

The tragic death of a man at a migrant processing centre may have been caused by diphtheria, the government admitted after previously called reports of an outbreak 'exaggerated'.

A man died at Manston migrant processing centre in Kent in the weeks after it emerged the centre was massively overcrowded.

It was previously reported that the centre had suffered an outbreak of the infectious disease but the Immigrations Minister Robert Jenrick claimed the reports were overblown.

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