A Victorian judge will compel the former chairman and the nursing director of St Basil's aged care home to answer key questions about how they prepared and managed a COVID-19 outbreak, which ended in the deaths of 50 residents last year.
The former operators of the St Basil's aged care home, the site of Australia's deadliest COVID-19 outbreak, have been ordered to testify in court to explain their actions during the crisis.The Victorian coroner has rejected applications by the operators to avoid giving evidenceFormer chairman Kon Kontis and the home's nursing director, Vicky Kos, have so far refused to give detailed evidence to investigators or to a coronial inquest examining the deaths of 50 residents in 2020.
"They are, therefore, clearly in a position to give direct evidence about nearly all of the topics identified in the scope of this inquiry." Judge Cain said a key question that would be put to the pair was why St Basil's did not send a message to the Commonwealth Department of Health, via a specific email address set up to notify the department about COVID-19 cases.
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