Boris Johnson has sparked fury by blaming the high number of coronavirus care home deaths on care providers not 'following procedures' On a visit to Yorkshire today, the PM claimed: "We discovered too many care homes didn't really follow the procedures in the way that they could have.” Almost 20,000 people have died from coronavirus in care homes since the start of the pandemic in March.
The Prime Minister's comments today sparked anger from care providers, who said they were "neither accurate nor welcome." Mr Johnson's government has been repeatedly criticised for being slow to react to the epidemic in care homes - with Shadow Care Minister Liz Kendall branding their testing strategy "slow, confused and chaotic".