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Deadly mistakes that led to UK failing to combat coronavirus laid bare
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Britain's failings in combatting the pandemic are laid bare by the tragic case of care worker Sonya Kaygan – just 26 when coronavirus took her life.
Sonya had to order her own face masks on Amazon but was seriously ill in hospital by the time they arrived. At the care home where she worked, Elizabeth Lodge in Enfield, North London, 25 of 90 residents have died since the beginning of March, at least 17 linked to coronavirus.
Yet the first was not tested until April 29, 34 days after the home’s first suspected case and two weeks after Health Secretary Matt Hancock pledged a test for all who needed it.
Andrew Knight, of Elizabeth Lodge’s private provider CareUK, said: “Testing has come way too late to have any meaningful effect on keeping
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