Speaking at the Downing Street press conference on Wednesday (April 22), Prof Whitty said people living in care homes are in the most vulnerable category and therefore, more deaths can be expected. “In care homes, what we have is a large number of people of the most vulnerable age for this virus,” he said. “When we look back over this epidemic, and I want to be really clear we are not anywhere near being able to say, ‘Right, that’s done we can no look back’,

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India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
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