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'Perfectly healthy' grandad, 80, died after hospital moved him into infection-hit care home

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A 'perfectly healthy' 80-year-old was moved from a community hospital to an infection-hit care home - where he died from coronavirus.

Great-grandfather Rodger Laing, 80, died on May 27 at a care home which had a known outbreak of coronavirus, two days after testing positive for the killer bug.

The widower, who has Alzheimer's disease, passed away just 22 days after moving into 114-bed Drummond Grange care home, run by Barchester Healthcare, in Edinburgh.

He had tested negative for coronavirus before leaving Midlothian Community Hospital, where he had been cared for on the Alzheimer's ward, before being moved.

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