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Coronavirus: Care homes struggle has deaths rise

Since the beginning of this crisis, the focus of much of the public's attention and sympathy has been the strain on NHS staff. But as the NHS battles on the front line, workers in social care are having just as stressful a time.

We don't hear as much about the fact that they are having to shoulder a huge tranche of work traditionally assigned to the health service - a task, as our Policy Editor Lewis Goodall has been finding out, for which they are little prepared.

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