Manager Jonathan Cunningham has ensured residents see family in lockdown on a rickshaw with a Perspex screen

When Matt Hancock announced that care home residents in England could finally receive indoor visits from one friend or relative from 8 March, families breathed a huge sigh of relief.

The isolation of society’s oldest and most vulnerable people in their twilight years has been one of the cruellest side-effects of the pandemic, particularly as it didn’t seem to work, with almost 30,000 people dying with Covid in care homes in England and Wales by mid February.

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