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A Midlothian nursing home will have its registration suspended after 15 of its residents died with Covid.
Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard that virtually half of residents of Thornlea Nursing Home in Loanhead had succumbed to the virus.
It will allow time to find alternative homes for the remaining residents.
David Logan, counsel for Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland, said it was a very serious situation .
Mr Logan told Sheriff Douglas Keir: The reason 18 January is appropriate is at the present time there are still 14 residents in the home. Those residents are in the process of being moved by Midlothian health partnership but that is quite a complicated business.