Coronavirus involved in quarter of care home residents’ deaths in England and Wales
More than 12,000 deaths of residents since crisis began involved virus, ONS data shows
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More than a quarter of all deaths of care home residents in England and Wales since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis involved Covid-19, official figures show.
Data from the Office for National Statistics reveals that in the period from 2 March to 1 May 2020, there were 45,899 registered deaths of care home residents , 12,526 (27.3%) of which involved the virus.
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