Covid-19: Hundreds of UK care home deaths not added to official toll
Exclusive: Industry body estimates up to 1,000 people may have died in care homes so far
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Hundreds of people are dying in care homes from confirmed or suspected coronavirus without yet being officially counted, the Guardian has learned.
More than 120 residents of the UK’s largest charitable provider of care homes are thought to have died from the virus in the last three weeks, while another network of care homes is reported to have recorded 88 deaths.
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