Responding to the latest ONS figures on
coronavirus deaths, which show that deaths
involving COVID-19 as a percentage of all deaths in care homes
decreased to 32.5 per cent in the week to 22 May, compared with
37.2 per cent in the previous week, Cllr Ian
Hudspeth, Chairman of the Local Government Association’s
Community Wellbeing Board, said:
“Every death from this dreadful disease is a personal
tragedy and our thoughts go out to those family and friends in
mourning.
“Social care is on the frontline in the
fight against coronavirus. We are thankfully seeing a
week-on-week decline in the number of care home deaths
attributable to COVID-19, but worryingly the total number of
excess deaths in care homes is still higher than the five-year
average, which means our elderly and most vulnerable continue to
be at risk.
“Councils are doing all they can to
protect those in care homes, as well as those receiving care in
their own homes. Every council in England has prepared plans on
how to support all care homes in their areas to control and
prevent future infection outbreaks, working alongside the NHS
locally and with Public Health
England.
“These plans, alongside greater
information sharing with councils on where outbreaks are
happening more widely as part of the test and trace programme,
will help in our shared national effort to finally defeat this
disease.”
NOTES TO
EDITORS
LGA responds to coronavirus care home
resilience plan
https://www.local.gov.uk/lga-responds-coronavirus-care-home-resilience-plan
