Covid-19 Update Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office
Wednesday 5th January 2022

(2 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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There are no restrictions on them at the moment, and that is certainly the way we wish to keep it.

Matt Western Portrait Matt Western (Warwick and Leamington) (Lab)
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In Warwickshire last year, there were 436 excess deaths caused by covid in care homes. Currently, 77% of residents and staff in care homes are boosted; the other 23% are not. What are the Government doing to ensure that they get the booster vaccination, so that we do not repeat the mistakes of last year?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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Often the problem in care homes is that someone may have had covid recently and therefore is not eligible for the booster, so people have to come round, but we are doing that as fast as we possibly can.