CARE home deaths in the Borders are set to be considered by a special investigation looking into coronavirus-related fatalities across Scotland.

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) established a Covid Deaths Investigation Team last year.

And now the COPFS has confirmed that information is being collected about deaths at a care home run by Scottish Borders Council (SBC).

A spokesperson for the COPFS said: “A multi-agency information-gathering process is under way into deaths at Saltgreens Care Home, Eyemouth.

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“This information will be collated and provided to the Covid Deaths Investigation Team of COPFS in due course.

“In order to protect the integrity of this process and the interests of all those involved we will not comment further at this time.”

The COPFS did not state whether any other Borders care homes will feature in the investigation.

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A council spokesperson said: “We are providing every assistance to the Crown Office in regards to its ongoing nationwide investigation into COVID deaths in care homes.”

It is possible for the deaths investigation team to decide that a death should be the subject of a fatal accident inquiry or prosecution.

In line with the Lord Advocate’s instructions, since May last year virus deaths or presumed virus deaths where the deceased might have contracted the virus at work – or where the deceased was in a care home when the virus was contracted – should be reported to the COPFS.