The spate of problems relates to a small minority of care homes but coincides with a tripling of fatalities linked to the virus among care residents in England and Wales. In the week ending 22 January, 2,364 care residents died with Covid-19 on their death certificate, the highest level since last May, according to the Office for National Statistics. At Curtis Weston House, a home for 27 people in Wigston, Leicestershire, which is part of a chain that made £2.2m in annual post-tax profits, inspectors found “no deep cleaning of bedrooms of Covid-19 positive people”, ineffective alcohol-free hand sanitiser in use, and staff not always having ready access to PPE.