Matt Hancock defends catastrophic decision to empty infected patients into care homes, letting Covid run riot as shamed ex-Health Secretary says 'every decision was a choice between difficult options' in grilling over testing failures

Care homes in England were forced to accept hospital patients who hadn't been tested. They went on to log more than 43,000 Covid deaths during the first two years of the pandemic.

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