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Miriam Burrell

Home Office warned of ‘poor management’ of infectious diseases at Manston in July

Migrants with symptoms of diphtheria are isolating at the Manston centre

(Picture: PA)

The Home Office office was warned of “poor” facilities for managing infectious diseases at the Manston migrant centre four months before a man died from what may have been diphtheria.

A HM Chief Inspector of Prisons report of the asylum processing centre in Kent, which has struggled with overcrowding and outbreaks of disease, was given to the Home Office at the end of July.

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