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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Diane Taylor

Manston health concerns raised with Home Office weeks before outbreak

An aerial view of the Manston immigration short-term holding facility in Kent
An aerial view of the Manston immigration short-term holding facility in Kent. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

The Home Office was warned about the need to improve infection control measures at Manston, its site for people arriving in small boats, weeks before the UK’s worst diphtheria outbreak in decades, the Guardian has learned.

Freedom of information disclosures from Thanet district council, obtained by the Guardian, have revealed a catalogue of concerns about failures in public health measures at the centre near Ramsgate, where initial checks are carried out on asylum seekers.

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