Coronavirus: When did care homes go into lockdown?
discharged from hospitals would be tested for coronavirus. By this time, more than 5,700 residents in England and Wales had died either in their care home or in hospital.
There are no statistics to show how many cases of coronavirus were transmitted from hospitals to care homes.said it was"categorically not true" that hospitals were systematically discharging patients to care homes with coronavirus, saying there had been a 40% drop in the number of discharges compared with January.
He added that because"sufficient testing" didn't come in until mid-April:"It is possible that a very small number of asymptomatic Covid-19 patients [people who had coronavirus but weren't showing symptoms], who trusts were unable to test prior to that date, were discharged to social care."Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove was asked by Andrew Marr on 17 May about the government's guidance on moving patients from hospitals to care homes.
Mr Gove acknowledged that government advice had altered over time,"as a result of our scientific knowledge of the virus changing".A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said:"We have followed a science-led action plan designed at all times to save lives. This week we announced a new £600m infection control fund for care homes... on top of the £3.2 billion we made available in March and April.
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