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U.K. to Include Surging Care Home Deaths in Daily Virus Data
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A rainbow poster, used as a symbol of hope during the coronavirus pandemic, is seen in the window of a care home in Manchester on on April 15, 2020.
Photographer: Anthony Delvin/AFP/Getty Images
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The U.K. will include the growing number of coronavirus deaths in care homes in its daily tally, a move that risks making its published toll significantly worse than other Europe countries.
Until now, Britain had only given daily updates on the number of people dying with Covid-19 in hospitals. It had excluded deaths in the country’s 15,000 homes for the elderly on the grounds that data was harder to collect quickly, prompting criticism the government was under-reporting the number of fatalities linked to the virus.