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Manston asylum centre death may have been caused by diphtheria

Security guards and an ambulance outside a penned off area at the Manston asylum centre in Kent.
Security guards and an ambulance outside a penned-off area earlier this month at the Manston asylum centre in Kent. Photograph: Andy Aitchison/The Guardian

A man’s death at the Manston asylum centre may have been caused by a diphtheria infection, the Home Office has said.

Initial tests at a hospital near the centre in Kent, which has struggled with overcrowding and outbreaks of disease, came back negative – but a follow-up PCR test was positive.

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