The First Minister accepted there will have to be an inquiry into care home infections as she admitted “different conclusions” might have been made with hindsight.
Nicola Sturgeon was asked if transferring around 900 untested people from hospital to residential care in March contributed to the deadly spread of covid-19.
The decision was made on the basis of the best guidance at the time, she said, because they were braced for an influx of patients across hospitals. “If I apply hindsight to that I come to a different conclusion,” she said in a BBC Radio Scotland interview.Get all the top Scottish politics news sent straight to your Inbox by signing up to our Politics newsletter.We cover Holyrood, Westminster, and local councils, with a