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Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden joined Good Morning Britain from his home earlier today and was grilled by Piers Morgan on whether the UK government was sufficiently prepared for the coronavirus outbreak. However, the ITV host hit out at the government minster and branded his response “utterly disgraceful” as the pair discussed the total number of coronavirus deaths and if the government could have taken measures which would have reduced this number. 

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A total of 217 virus-linked deaths have been recorded in care homes in England but there are fears that the number is substantially higher. 

This figure is less than half the figure provided by two of the UK’s largest care home providers which have reported 442 coronavirus related deaths between them.

During Dowden’s interview, he reiterated the confirmed number of deaths in care homes was 217 but Morgan lashed out at the Culture Secretary. 

“I find it utterly disgraceful that you just want to say a couple hundred,” Morgan quipped. “These people are real people with real lives.”

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