Latest report paints a painful picture of the care sector during the pandemic. But timid recommendations and a lack of accountability threaten to undermine it

Of all 10 reports due to be published by the long-running Covid-19 inquiry, this week’s findings on adult social care were especially anticipated.

The impact of Covid-19 on the care sector was calamitous: tens of thousands of people died, staff were forced to wear bin bags due to a lack of protective clothing and relatives were banned from seeing their loved ones in their dying days.

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Inquiry chair says failure to advise care homes to isolate people discharged from hospital was ‘significant oversight’

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The care sector was “an afterthought” during the Covid-19 pandemic, and government failures caused the virus to spread “like wildfire” among vulnerable and elderly people, a public inquiry has found.

Heather Hallett, who is leading the Covid-19 inquiry, said it was a “significant omission” that the government did not advise that patients discharged from hospitals into care homes should be isolated, causing the virus to spread rapidly among residents and staff.

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"Heróis de Branco" recria os 76 dias de confinamento de Wuhan, entre janeiro e abril de 2020, é protagonizado pelo ator de Hong Kong Andy Lau e pela atriz chinesa Yang Zishan.

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“Credetemi, non so quanto resisterò ancora”. Con queste parole Francesco Totti ha riunito i suoi figli a distanza di sicurezza in una stanza della sua villa, convinto di non riuscire a superare le conseguenze del Covid-19. Nell’autunno del 2020, l’ex capitano della Roma ha affrontato una polmonite bilaterale severa, a poche settimane dalla morte del padre Enzo per la stessa malattia.

La ricostruzione di quei giorni, segnati dal crollo dell’ossigenazione e dal rifiuto categorico del ricovero ospedaliero, è contenuta nelle pagine della sua nuova autobiografia, di cui il quotidiano Leggo ha riportato gli stralci più significativi. A sbloccare il quadro clinico è stato l‘intervento di Pier Silvio Berlusconi e le indicazioni mediche a distanza di Alberto Zangrillo.

L'articolo “Pier Silvio Berlusconi mi ha salvato la vita. Non volevo fare la fine di mio padre, ho detto: ‘Se devo morì, voglio morì a casa mia, non rinchiuso qui dentro senza rivedere i miei figli”: il racconto di Totti nel suo libro proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.

507.465 pessoas já receberam a vacina contra a gripe desde 30 de setembro. Cobertura nos maiores de 60 anos chega aos 13,8%. Covid-19 fica muito aquém.

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“What plague?” an Irkutsk resident exclaims when the epidemiological crisis that has put this small Siberian city near Mongolia on the front pages over the past week is mentioned. “Do you see me wearing a mask?” the annoyed clerk at a pharmacy retorts when asked whether she has noticed any concern over reports of quarantines and the death of a laboratory worker. “Whatever the authorities say, we’ll obey. We all obey the authorities,” say two elderly women, carefree as they sit on swings in a park in Shelekhov, the suburb that their own governor advised people not to visit due to “a particularly dangerous infection.”

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Fadiga crónica, febres e dores sem diagnóstico durante anos. Estima-se que 100 mil portugueses têm Covid Longa — 17,6% dos casos identificados são crianças e jovens.

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A comprehensive atlas of the 18 main respiratory viruses circulating in Catalonia, produced for the first time in Spain by researchers from that northeastern region, reveals that the coronavirus that caused the Covid-16 pandemic — SARS-CoV-2 — “is currently not a winter virus. In recent years, it has shown clear peaks during the spring and summer, which is different from what was initially expected.”

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Years of emphatic denials that U.S. taxpayers never funded gain-of-function work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology have met their match in a federal courtroom. On August 18, 2026, David Morens—long-time senior adviser to Anthony Fauci—pleaded guilty to conspiring to hide the very paper trail those denials tried to bury. The emails about the cancelled […]