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Good morning, good afternoon and good evening to everyone reading. I’m Mattha Busby, here bringing you global coronavirus updates for the next couple of hours.
My colleague Peter Walker has the latest on the scrapping of a rule forcing care home residents in England who go on any sort of outside visit to then spend two weeks in their room. One campaign group said the regulation had turned “care homes into prisons”.
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