Care homes set to re-open with guidance on how to safely visit your loved ones to be published this week

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CARE homes are set to re-open with new guidance on how to safely visit your loved ones to be published this week.

The Transport Secretary Grant Shapps today explained he understood how “heartbreaking” it was being apart and that families would be reunited soon.

Care Homes could soon reopen to families hoping to visit loved ones

Appearing on BBC Breakfast, Mr Shapps insisted the Government wanted care homes to be open as soon as possible.

He said: “For anybody who does have loved ones in care homes, it is heartbreaking not being able to visit them.

“We want that to happen as quickly as possible.

“There’s new guidance coming forward for that, and because it has to balance that critical safety, we don’t want to see care homes reinfected for example, against the human desire to want to have families be able to meet again.”

“It has taken a little while to get right, it will be this week.”

Care homes have been unopen to visitors during the pandemic, with centres all over Britain seeing a disastrous infection rate.

More than 20,000 of the 44,236 people who have died of coronavirus in the UK were living in care homes.

Boris Johnson had previously blamed the high rate of deaths in care homes on “too many” care providers failing to follow health guidelines.

The comments sparked anger from care providers who branded Boris’s remarks “neither accurate nor welcome”.

They also pointed to the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for staff in many homes, which failed to combat the spread of the virus.

The National Care Forum (NCF) hit back by telling the PM to start “turning the dial up on reform and down on blame”.

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