THE LEADER of Harlow Council has expressed his sympathies to all those whose loved ones from a Harlow care home have died.

Cllr Mark Ingall is also the ward councillor for the area that includes Tye Green Lodge in Harlow.

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Cllr Ingall said: “The situation in care homes like Tye Green Lodge is a fast developing tragedy. Whilst the precise circumstances around the sad deaths in this care home in my ward are not known, the Health Secretary said yesterday that routine testing for Covid19 of elderly patients leaving hospital to return to a care home was only just beginning.

Shockingly this must mean that before this change in policy some elderly hospital leavers carrying the virus have been returned to care homes taking the infection to the heart of our most vulnerable institutions.

It is simply unacceptable that in a time of lock down, when staff of some care homes are living in with their residents to avoid the risk of contamination, that this has been allowed to happen.

“My thoughts are with the relatives of those that have died, the surviving residents of care homes and their families who must be deeply troubled and with the carers, often working for so little, who are devoted to their charges and who have seen so many pass away. in such a short space of time.”