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More people died with Covid in care homes in England and Wales in the second wave of the Covid pandemic than the first.
Figures released by the ONS this morning show that, while the rise in coronavirus deaths among care home residents was much sharper during the first wave, the absolute number of deaths attributed to the virus and the proportion of Covid deaths was higher in the second wave.
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