Covid-19: Nearly half of care homes in northeast England have had an outbreak

Abstract

More than a third of England’s care homes have now had cases of covid-19, the country’s healthcare regulator has reported. In a report published on 19 May,1 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) said that around 36% of care homes in England had been affected by the disease, as of the week ending 10 May. The worst affected regions have been the north east, where 47% of all care homes have had an outbreak; London (42%); and the north west (41%), in the CQC’s analysis of Public Health England data. Additional data from the CQC’s own tracking survey found that, of 6258 domiciliary care agencies that submitted data from 2 to 8 May, 19% (1179) were caring for at least one person with suspected or confirmed …