British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was accused of trying to rewrite history for appearing to blame the deadly spread of coronavirus in care homes on the institutions themselves.
JOHNSON. Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gives updates on the government's response to the COVID-19 outbreak in London, United Kingdom on March 20, 2020. File photo by Julian Simmonds/AFP
Critics also say the rapid transfer of elderly patients from hospitals to care homes in a bid to free up beds at the start of the pandemic helped spread the disease. "If this is genuinely his view, I think we're almost entering Kafka-esque alternative reality where the government sets the rules, we follow them, they don't like the results, they then deny setting the rules and blame the people that were trying to do their best," he said.
But that is likely to be an underestimate, as almost 30,000 more residents have died than in the same period last year. And Care England, the country's largest representative body for independent providers for adult social care, said it had still not received government guidance about safe reopening.In response, Johnson's spokesman praised the"brilliant job" that care staff were doing and suggested the prime minister had been misunderstood.
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