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The care home that locked down early to save its residents

Despite government pressure to take patients being discharged from hospitals, this care home refused and locked down early to protect its residents.

About a quarter of known coronavirus deaths in Great Britain have happened in care homes, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying he "bitterly regrets" the epidemic and that the government is "working very hard" to tackle it.

So what is it like in the care home that refused to accept recently discharged hospital patients, who they worried were not tested for Covid-19?

Policy Editor, Lewis Goodall reports.

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