Fifteen residents at a council care home are understood to have died of coronavirus in less than a month. And now politicians are demanding there are no more admissions to Crosslet House Nursing Home in Dumbarton - where senior managers had recently boasted of being coronavirus free - and that every resident is tested as a matter of urgency.
Labour ’s deputy leader Jackie Baillie was approached by a whistleblower concerned about the number of deaths in the West Dunbartonshire Council run home.
Baillie reiterated Scottish Labour’s call for the testing of staff and residents to be prioritised to stop the spread of Covid-19 at care homes and said every Crosslet House resident should be tested as a matter of urgency.Baillie said: “It is