Residents in care homes across Greater Manchester are dying painful, lonely deaths - 'drowning' in the fluid building up in their lungs, crying out for loved ones who never arrive and suffering nightmarish hallucinations.
10.04.2020 - 07:11 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A care home hit by Covid-19 yesterday reported seven deaths in just over a week.
But Glasgow City Council, which operates Riverside Care Home in Dalmarnock, said only three of these deaths were suspected to be from the virus.
We told earlier this week how 17 residents were in isolation at the home and two members of staff were being treated in hospital with confirmed coronavirus.
A spokeswoman for Glasgow’s Health and Social Care Partnership said yesterday: “Our thoughts go out to everyone
Residents in care homes across Greater Manchester are dying painful, lonely deaths - 'drowning' in the fluid building up in their lungs, crying out for loved ones who never arrive and suffering nightmarish hallucinations.
Twenty-four residents at Erskine care homes for ex-servicemen and women are believed to have died from coronavirus.
Half of coronavirus deaths in South Lanarkshire last week were in the region's care homes.
Statistics released today reveal the devastating number of deaths in care homes involving coronavirus.
Coronavirus has been responsible for 37 deaths in South Lanarkshire's care homes.
Health bosses in Salford believe the city’s high Covid-19 care home death toll is due to ‘proactive testing’ - while the city mayor says that the current national approach creates a ‘false picture’ of the crisis.
No one should die alone, without loved ones there to support them.
The scale of the coronavirus crisis in Scotland’s care homes was laid bare today as it was revealed they accounted for one third of all deaths.
Coronavirus deaths in care homes in England Wales have shot up from 217 in one week to more than 1,000 according to figures released this morning by the Office for National Statistics.
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A quarter of all suspected or confirmed coronavirus deaths in Scotland have been in care homes, new figures have revealed.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that there were 3,716 Covid-19 deaths in hospitals, 217 in care homes, 136 in private homes and 53 elsewhere - 406 in total - in the week up to April 3.
Care homes afflicted by Covid-19 are being hit with a three patient limit for testing.
A total of 92 coronavirus outbreaks have been detected at care homes across the UK in just the last 24 hours.
Residents are dying, swathes of staff are off sick and care home managers say they have been left to fight coronavirus alone as the pandemic sweeps across Greater Manchester.