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The health secretary is also grilled over the testing of patients discharged from hospitals to care homes.
The daughter of a man who died with Covid-19 says if he had been tested when he was ready to be discharged from hospital, he would "probably still be alive today".

Bernard Kirton died on 7 April last year. His daughter Fiona is a member of he Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group, which is calling for an urgent inquiry into the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, but spoke to the BBC in a personal capacity.

She said her father was fit for discharge after going into hospital following a fall - but the care home they found for him would only accept him if he had a Covid test.

The hospital refused to do this, she said, as he had no symptoms, later telling her this was a Public Health England decision.

Two weeks after this, another care home was found - but four hours later, he tested positive for coronavirus.

"It wasn't just something that was missed," she said. "He caught it in the ward in a time period when he didn't need to be there, because the hospital wouldn't test him.

"That care home that insisted on testing did not have any cases throughout the pandemic. Had he been tested...he would probably still be alive today."

She said she had been "relieved" to hear Dominic Cummings speak yesterday on care homes and testing as he confirmed what she had suspected.

She added: "I can only thank Dominic Cummings, who I didn’t have a very high opinion of, for exposing what has gone on."