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Coronavirus death in English nursing homes has increased significantly in The Last few days, new figures suggest.

The Office for National statistics (ONS) said on Tuesday 1,000 people died in nursing homes in the week ending 10. April.

But now the health regulator said, which could have seen Five Days later, a further 1,000 deaths.

Chief Medical Adviser, Prof Chris Whitty said it would be important to look at all deaths in nursing homes, not just those mentioned Covid.

He Said the Downing Street press briefing-he believed-ONS to pay nursing home deaths would be an "underestimate" and that, when The Crisis was over, we would see a "high mortality in nursing homes".

But He Said , as a vulnerable group, deaths in nursing homes to a certain degree, "not to prevent".

The Department of Health has said, she also had a fear of a "significant increase" in The Number of deaths with the Corona Virus among the residents.

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The ONS data published on Tuesday showed it had 1,043 people in connection with Covid 19 in England and Wales , the homes with almost 1,000 of those in the English care.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC), the care regulates homes for the elderly in England, and now produced provisional data for April 11-15, beat you in front of it, an additional 1,000 deaths were associated with Covid-19.

they also say, there is a significant increase in not-the Covid deaths - In Line with what the ONS official statistics suggest.

These figures are published to be expected on April 28, you have have been checked.

The messages of providers, some of the people who died in the hospital may include. As these deaths are reflected in the national health service numbers, the numbers collected need to be adapted by the CQC and will be checked already.

the doctor had to inform is always to CQC when a resident dies.

But the forms have now been adapted to collect information on whether a death is linked to a coronavirus.

The reporting mechanism is different from the one that can take from hospitals and the data longer to pull Together , because there are far more in nursing homes than in hospitals.

The Number of deaths in UK hospitals has risen in The Last 24 hours from 759 to 18,100.

health Secretary to Matt Hancock reports that 15 social care had workers, died in the pandemic.

He told MPs: "In the same way that we honor and we remember all those NHS employees who have died, so that we can also for those in Our Country to serve and look after people working in social care. "

The Daily death figures from the UK hospitals have one of The Most important statistics used by the government to the progress of the pandemic.

The government has always been clear that it is not people dying in care homes or in their own homes.

But Mr Steiner warned against the comparison of the various figures, conclusions about the General death rate, which is to say that they were compiled on different time frames and the required "rigorous analysis" to compare correctly.

doubling in Five Days sounds daunting, but that is the history of the epidemic.

announced The Number of deaths, for the United Kingdom as a whole was doubling every Three Days up to the week before Easter.

After this, it slows down, it doubles every week, before the growth eventually stalled.

in order for this trend in care homes of one week is very different to those we have elsewhere seen.

your new data are preliminary, and we should Be Careful about the comparison of The First week of their data to ONS figures from the previous week.

But the big question was to know about what are in foster homes now: has the growth in The Number of deaths to a halt to it or they will continue to climb to the top?

The Other data sources, we do not use The Answer . These days the values of the DHSC mainly deaths in hospitals, most nursing home deaths to be missed.

The full figures are based on death certificates, record nursing homes take about a week to be collected and evaluated.

The Care Quality Commission informed of any death of a nursing home resident, you can give a more comprehensive picture.

But if they are included in the official figures, it will give us important information about a group of people, The Most by the coronavirus.

It Comes as the government figures prior to the growing pressure to address a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) for home-care workers, in the midst of reports of the employee or the employer, to excessive prices for the masks and dresses.

the labour former minister, Mr Hain said: "The government urgently needs to homes to give billions more to care for, instead of left so badly in this crisis. "

Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey to Act Liberal told The Bbc , the CQC, the figures were "alarming" and accused the government of "very slow to react".

"We will now see, to be what a large number of deaths seems to be," he added, and he called on the government, "it is, act Together ".

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Source of news: bbc.com