The virus spread ‘like wildfire’ among the elderly because of government failures, a public investigation has found
The UK government’s negligent approach towards care homes at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic has led to high disease and death rates among the elderly, a public inquiry into the nation’s response to the disease outbreak has concluded.
More than 43,000 people died from Covid-19 in care homes throughout the UK between March 2020 and July 2022, with most of them registered during the first year of the pandemic, according to the data presented in the inquiry report published on Tuesday. That amounts to just under 10% of the total care homes population between 2022 and 2023.
An earlier report published by the British parliament put the death toll between March 2020 and April 2021 at over 41,000, adding that it amounted to nearly a quarter of deaths from all causes among care home residents as well as more than a quarter of all Covid-19 deaths in England over that period. The report named the rate one of “the worst in Europe,” adding that the loss of life could have been mitigated.
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