About half of care homes have residents with symptoms of the coronavirus and providers are angry because social care is a lower priority for staff testing or protective equipment than the NHSCases of coronavirus in care homes are accelerating rapidly, with about half having residents with symptoms of the disease, leaders of the sector say. MHA, the largest charitable provider, with 4,400 residents in 160 care homes and retirement communities, said more that half of its services had confirmed or suspected cases among residents. No figures of confirmed coronavirus cases in care homes are collected as the social care sector does not have access to testing and nor are numbers of suspected cases logged across the sectorMartin Green, chief executive of Care England, which represents care home providers, told The Times: “We are seeing more and more cases. At the start it was a bit of a trickle and now it has really accelerating.”

Source: The Times April 01, 2020 16:07 UTC