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Covid care home discharge policy was unlawful, says court
High court judgment deals blow to claim government threw ‘protective ring’ around vulnerable residents in England
The government’s policy towards care homes in England at the start of the Covid pandemic has been ruled illegal, in a significant blow to ministers’ claim to have thrown a “protective ring” around the vulnerable residents.
The high court said the policy not to isolate people discharged from hospitals to care homes in the first weeks of the pandemic in spring 2020 without testing was “irrational”.
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