Exclusive: eighteen out of 27 people living at The Old Hall near Spilsby died and two staff were treated in hospital
A care home in Lincolnshire has been left devastated after Covid killed two-thirds of its residents with two staff treated in hospital in an outbreak the manager described as “horrendous”.
Eighteen of 27 residents at The Old Hall at Halton Holegate, near Spilsby, died in the run-up to Christmas, the care home’s manager, Diane Vale, told the Guardian. Most of those who died were in their 90s – the youngest was 79 and the oldest was 99. Some deaths were so sudden staff did not have the chance to administer end-of-life treatment or arrange for loved ones to say goodbye.
