A woman whose father died from Covid-19 after untested hospital patients were sent into his care home says she was 'emotional' after yesterday's landmark High Court ruling.
The court said the government acted unlawfully by discharging untested patients from hospitals into care homes during the early stages of the pandemic in this country. Judges said that policies contained in documents released in March and early April 2020 were unlawful because they failed to take into account the risk to elderly and vulnerable residents from non-symptomatic transmission of the virus.
87-year-old Ronald McGoldrick was well and living happily in the Lighthouse Lodge care home in New Brighton, Wirral, in 2020. Although he was elderly and living with diabetes, his family said he was doing well until he suddenly fell ill with Covid-19. He died alone in hospital on April 21.
