Kwasi Kwarteng defends Hancock over Covid care home claims
Business secretary says residents were protected as far as we could' during early days of pandemic
The UK business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, has defended Matt Hancock against criticism that he failed to protect people in care homes at the outset of the Covid pandemic, saying residents were protected as far as we could".
The health secretary is under mounting pressure after Dominic Cummings accused him of promising ministers that all care residents in England were tested before being discharged back to their homes and then lying about this. On Thursday, Hancock denied the allegation but his explanation that it wasn't possible" to test all care home residents before they were discharged from hospital last March because the testing capacity was not yet available, has been called into question.
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