there are more revelations of the scale
of the deadly effects of corona virus in
care homes latest figures show that more
than a quarter of deaths of care home
residents in England and Wales including
some who died in hospitals between March
and May involved coronavirus that's more
than twelve and a half thousand people
of those nine out of ten victims had at
least one pre-existing condition most
commonly dementia and Alzheimer's
disease the government today has been
giving details of its next steps on
helping care homes in England during the
pandemic meanwhile 384 deaths involving
coronavirus have been reported in the
past 24-hour period in hospitals and the
wider community as well as care homes
and that means the overall number of
those who have died in the UK is 33
thousand nine hundred and ninety eight
our social affairs correspondent Allison
Holt has the latest
Thomas port was a hundred and one he was
ex-navy frail but still determined even
in a pandemic his reaction was I spent
time on the beaches at Dunkirk I picked
up survivors on the Atlantic convoys I
survived all that so I'm going to
survive this but in April he became one
of the nearly 46,000 care home residents
who have died from all causes over two
months his son Peter believes
coronavirus arrived in his father's
nursing home with a patient discharge
from hospital overall he says residents
needed more protection I believe that
they made a photo that there was a
fundamental error made at the beginning
the care homes either weren't going to
suffer the the coronavirus because of
their enclosed environment or
alternatively they didn't really care
about it or even think about it
unfortunately in this country social
care seems to be a poor relation to the
NHS
this care home in Sheffield managed to
keep the virus out by having staff move
in it's worked but now they've unlocked
again like the majority of care homes
this is a small family-run business and
the strain on them is huge I mean staff
are tired it's long de long long hours
long days long weeks you know this it's
not a measure that you can put in place
for six nine months it's you know it's
physically emotionally and mentally not
possible to do for that long without
constantly changing your staff today the
health and care secretary gave details
of infection control plans including a
named clinician for each care home right
from the start we've tried to throw a
protective ring around our care homes we
set out our first advice in February and
as the virus grew we strengthened it
throughout the register you've
introduced today aren't they too little
too late well what I set out today are
the things that we've been doing
throughout this crisis to support people
in care homes but worried by the number
of deaths in care homes some families
are moving their relatives out typically
it's not a long-term plan it's more that
you know they've heard that the care
home that they're in has coronavirus and
they're worried so they bring out their
parents and they're looking more what's
happening in the next month or two
so they're actually we're not seeing
people book sort of long-term but just
to ensure that their parents are safe
I'm Rosa who has dementia was having
respite care in a home but when other
residents developed kovat 19 her son
who'd already had the virus moved her
out
they've been self isolating together
she's been a great mom and last thing we
wanted to do support her in harm's way
but you know good maybe in that stroking
like that I picked up the virus he was
recovering and the option of taking
around
we would have been a luck on our side
she's not shown any signs and at such a
time knowing that our families are safe
whether they're with us or in our home
couldn't be more important Allison Holt
BBC news on the rate of which corona
virus can be spread across the UK has
gone up and is close to the point where
infections may rise again the
reproduction or our number needs to stay
below 1 to control the spread but rates
vary across the UK a good result in
stricter lockdown measures in some areas
is our science editor David Shulman some
areas are hit harder by the virus than
others the northeast of England seems to
have one of the highest rates of
infection it's thought that one factor
could be deprivation but whatever the
cause the council in Gateshead wants to
move more cautiously than national
government we don't have the same powers
to Scotland and Wales and North End's if
I had those powers we have those powers
here in get absolutely certain that we
would be important the same restrictions
as installed and in Wales in Northern
Ireland
so our social media message stay exactly
the same
it's steer tour where possible stay at
all that pressure for different
approaches across the UK is driven by
different estimates for rates of
infection what's called the our number
one new study says London now has the
lowest rate at one point it was
suffering the worst of the outbreak then
the Midlands anything below one means
the virus is declining but the southeast
east south west and northwest are all
closer to that threshold of one with the
northeastern yorkshire having the
highest rate of all regions in England
Scotland is thought to be in the range
of 0.7 to one and Wales and Northern
Ireland point eight two point nine there
is a geographical March of it really a
spread of it geographically from London
and the cities outwards so the Northeast
is just perhaps later than other regions
in acquiring the virus and then having
the epidemic but there may be other
factors and we do know that
disadvantaged
certainly in hospitalization and in
admissions with severe disease
disadvantage and in certain populations
it seems to have a more severe effect
the Scottish Government was the first to
declare that its restrictions would stay
in place for the time being and like
everywhere there's a struggle to work
out exactly how fast the virus is
spreading the me where we'll be
differences between our banan and rural
but the further we go into smaller
geographic areas the greater the
uncertainty that there is in making
those assessments but at the moment the
advice I have is that the the most
reliable way of reporting the our number
is in the range we reporter and at a
Scotland wide level the UK government
says restrictions may be relaxed at
different rates but that could be
difficult to manage if some people are
free to move around and others are still
in lockdown David Chapman BBC news well
as we've just been hearing the northeast
of England now has more confirmed cases
of kovin 19 than any other region in
England charities and health experts say
the government must solve the long-term
health and financial problems of many
across the country that can leave them
vulnerable to the virus problems the
British Medical Association says are a
disgrace
Fiona trots reports now from
Middlesbrough I think we should be not
our voter should be ed Rath and be made
to feel invisible and not important
enough I definitely don't think the
government understands the odds
health-wise we're stacked against areas
like Middlesbrough covered 19 has really
shone a light on that coronavirus is
finding the poorest communities everyone
that suffers so the one to the bottom of
the food chain in a town with some of
the country's highest child poverty
rates mums like Gemma need help her
eldest daughter is shielding away from
home her family is divided and when I
can't be there for I feel like inverted
arm you know and she's in agony I can't
hit pain away that's when it I couldn't
give a recordable kept Apache it's
something step why we sat on the grass
but then walking away kovat is taking an
emotional toll and a financial one cause
another cost of living to go off but
your money hasn't I mean little sand
sanitizers they used to be 69 pounds I
know three pound 99 no matter which way
you look really think you can try go
around eat win saying right well we'll
give you a 10 pound voucher or what time
how I'm going to get you and your prices
are going up to three point six in our
charity worker Pat is responding to this
crisis they used to deliver donated food
at Christmas now it's every week usually
when we want to people in a crisis they
recover from the crisis and they come
back to support us but that's not going
to happen this time food poverty fuel
poverty house in poverty help make
inequality here has existed for years
but it's never been more keenly felt
what we've got in Middlesbrough has been
previously chemical industry up here in
the Northeast people know about coal to
Newcastle and shipbuilding and so forth
and all those industries combined with
the housing the education the poverty
which can go with it
has had a detrimental effect upon
patients people's health
those people have had a higher infection
rate and very very sadly indeed
tragically a higher death rate than more
compatible more affluent areas in
England now it's unfair it's unjust
it's really something which is
preventable remember if you only have a
memory for this lockdown let it be a
good one and let's see if they can do it
as a nation where they call it the
pearls first and the meadows not only
made us count that would be nice if you
had a trot reporting there will our
health editor Hugh Pym is here Hugh the
r8 it's a big part of the debate over
when and how to ease lockdowns now
overall it's going up yes Clive the
range where experts think the our number
sits they did think it was between
naught 25 a nought point 9 they're now
saying it's between 0.7 than 1 and you
don't want to be above 1 because that
suggests an epidemic is accelerating now
it's important to note this doesn't
reflect changes in England since the
weekend with a big
any of the easing of lockdown
restrictions it refers back they look at
previous hospital admissions and
Hospital data and that in turn reflects
previous infections a couple of weeks
ago it's also the case that looking at
where the infections are there are
rather more in care homes and hospitals
than they thought and that may have
pushed our up the wider community we're
told it's very possible that our hasn't
changed at all it's also the case that
on the way up infections tend to
accelerate their other slower coming
back down the other side
a ministers are saying at least are is
not back above one yet but the margin
for error is now extremely tight if
further lockdown easing is to happen
ministers will have to watch this very
closely they've made it clear that they
could begin to tighten again if it goes
much above one the public will be able
to follow this very closely along with
the government because the our number is
now going to be published the range each
week sure okay few many thanks upin
there