As many as 8,000 people caught Covid-19 after being taken to hospital with other conditions, experts now fear. Figures to be released later this month are expected to show hundreds of those patients then died as a result.
But the total could be three times higher with deaths in the thousands, say campaigners. Figures on the number of patients infected in hospital since lockdown will finally be published later this month, after Shadow Health spokesman Justin Madders spent weeks asking for them.
He said: “The public have a right to know if hospitals are doing their job. Hospitals have a duty to control infection.” Have you lost a loved one to Covid-19 acquired in hospital?