Families sue UK government over relatives’ deaths during Covid crisis

The legal action argues that the state failed to protect people by not publishing procedures or policies to be applied by care homes and hospitals. Photograph: Amer Ghazzal/Shutterstock

A group of 30 families are suing the UK government, care homes and hospitals over the deaths of their relatives in the early days of the Covid pandemic.

The families argue that not enough was done to prevent the deaths and are claiming damages for loss of life and distress.