The daughter of a man who died with suspected coronavirus has told Sky News she wants to know who signed off on a government policy to allow untested COVID19 patients to be sent to care homes, potentially spreading the virus
Sky News understands the care home felt pressured to take the resident back and were told the patient"hadn't had a temperature for 48 hours".
Dr Gardner said she would like to see a public inquiry into the government's social care and hospital discharge policies leading up to and during the pandemic. She said:"My father's GP was extremely good. She really suspected that patients dying like my father were infected with coronavirus and she put 'probable"It seems such a shame after what he did for a living that his own death certificate isn't accurate. Because he was never tested and no samples were taken after death to confirm the diagnosis or not of coronavirus.
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