There are now more than 70 suspected cases of diphtheria among those who have been removed from the facility in recent weeks. In 2020, there was only one confirmed case in Britain. The Home Office confirmed yesterday that a man who died after being detained for almost a week in Manston, potentially illegally, had contracted diphtheria. Public health officials are concerned that failures to test migrants before moving them from the south coast to hotels in other parts of the country were reckless. Since the beginning of the year, there have been 50 confirmed cases of diphtheria among asylum seekers. Diphtheria, a highly contagious
