Explained: How coronavirus spread through Britain’s care homes - BBC Newsnight

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Figures from the UK’s largest charity care provider, MHA, shows 42% of its staff who recently tested positive were not displaying systems.

Nearly 45% of residents who had a positive test were also asymptomatic.

If care workers don’t know they’ve contracted the virus, how do you contain the disease?

UK Editor Katie Razzall reports.

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