Care homes were handed £1,000 cash incentives to take in hospital patients in a hurry so NHS beds could be freed up for critically ill people.
According to the Birmingham Mail, some of the patients had coronavirus. A condition of the offer from Birmingham City Council was that care homes had to take in a patient within 24 hours and no matter what their Covid status was.
Sixteen homes in the city took up the offer, made in line with government instructions to free up acute beds. Today a care home manager who rejected the advance said she's certain it's one of the reasons none of her residents have been infected.
Jane Farr, who manages Covid-free Digby Manor care home in Erdington, said: "It was too big a risk. If one case had come in it