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Care homes boss blasts coronavirus 'three test limit' among most vulnerable residents

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A care home boss has demanded testing for more residents after claiming the 33,000 elderly people inside homes are badly exposed on the “front line”.Robert Kilgour, whose Renaissance Care runs 15 homes, said revelations in the Record about care homes limiting tests to three suspected coronavirus cases per home revealed the low priority being given to the most vulnerable people.Kilgour reckons 300 old people could have died on care homes in Scotland already and he believes that numbers will explode under current conditions.Current Government strategy acknowledges the importance of testing nursing home staff, many of whom move between homes, but tests and PPE for even these workers have been in desperately short supply.Kilgour said: “If a

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