Matthew Taylor

Sunday shows round-up: Sturgeon challenged over care home deaths

Nicola Sturgeon – England’s care home deaths are under-reported

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has argued that the reason for Scotland’s relatively high rate of Covid-19 deaths in care homes could be because the figures for England and Wales are artificially low:

NS: It’s often put to me that the death rate for… care homes in Scotland is higher than it is in England and I just don’t believe that that is the case… It’s not for me to explain England’s figures, but I think here there is, at least on the face of it, a question of under-reporting in England.

Dominic Raab – UK ‘can’t stay in lockdown forever’

The Foreign Secretary joined Sophy Ridge this morning to discuss the government’s latest steps in easing the lockdown. Raab said that easing restrictions would be a tricky task to get right, as it carried the risk that the re-infection rate (known as the R number) could rise back above the crucial figure of 1. However, he stressed that it was critical for the country to begin returning to normal as soon as possible:

DR: Obviously this is a sensitive moment, but we can’t just stay in lockdown forever.

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