England's care homes have suffered more than 4,000 coronavirus deaths in just two weeks, devastating official figures show.
Some 4,343 deaths "suspected or confirmed" to involve Covid-19 were notified to the Care Quality Commission between April 10 and April 24.
The staggering figure - from a new method of counting deaths - is a huge surge on the last official figure of the number of people in care homes dying of coronavirus.
And the real total will be higher. The CQC figures do not cover Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. There is a delay of up to three days reporting each death.