COVID-19: Care home visits could resume within weeks - Minister

The Care Minister has told Sky News that face-to-face visits in English care homes could resume within weeks.

Helen Whately suggested that people would not have to wait for their relatives to receive their second vaccine dose before seeing them.

Meanwhile she understands that the hospitality sector has been hit by the pandemic but points to the Prime Minister's roadmap out of lockdown on 22 February.

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