Matt Hancock faces legal action from daughter of Covid-19 care home victim
by Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent from Science | The Guardian on (#54JZZ)
Minister accused of litany of failures' and misleading public over protecting care homes
Matt Hancock is facing legal action from the daughter of a man who died from Covid-19 in a care home in which the health secretary is accused of a litany of failures" and misleading the public with his claim to have thrown a protective ring" around care homes.
Dr Cathy Gardner launched a high court claim on Friday after her father, Michael Gibson, a retired superintendent of births, marriages and deaths, died in an Oxfordshire care home in early April. He became infected after a patient who tested positive for the virus was discharged from hospital into the home.
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