Data from the Office for National Statistics shows just 77.8 per cent of spaces in English care homes were taken in the year to March 2022 - meaning 100,000 beds were vacant.
Latest Government dashboard data - which is becoming increasingly unreliable now that free testing has been scrapped - shows there were 1,186 admissions for the virus across the UK on April 23.
Britons took to Twitter to suggest titles for Health Secretary Matt Hancock s book, including The adulterer s guide to social distancing and Saving lives, s ging wives .