Distraught families have accused Matt Hancock of telling a ‘cruel lie’ when he claimed there was a ‘protective ring’ around care homes during the Covid pandemic.
Relatives told how sick hospital patients were discharged into homes alongside their vulnerable loved ones, while staff had very little personal protective equipment (PPE) to help curb the spread of the virus.
Many were ordered to stay away as their family members succumbed to disease, or had contact only through windows or via FaceTime.
Jean Adamson, of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK, told how she was unable to hug her father Aldrick as he died in
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