Care home residents

Staff at Northfield Nursing Home mark the National Day of Reflection, held on the second anniversary of the first Covid lockdown in the UK

Care home marks two-year Covid anniversary

Newfield Nursing Home, Sheffield, April 2020. Eleven residents at the 60 bed home have died from coronavirus and the company which runs this and two otrher care homes has 36 staff who have also tested positive and another 31 who are self-isolating. See SWNS story SWLEcare. These moving behind-the-scenes photos reveal a rare glimpse of day-to-day life inside a care home devastated by coronavirus. The images give the clearest look yet at how dedicated key workers are tirelessly caring for some of the most vulnerable people in British society. They emerge the day after the government finally announced that all care home residents and staff in England will be able to access tests, regardless of whether they have symptoms. Latest figures revealed a third of all coronavirus deaths are now happening in care homes, with a grim figure of 2,000 given for the week ending April 17.

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