Victorians authorities are racing to prevent disaster in aged care homes, learning from the mistakes seen in Sydney’s Newmarch House. 9News
A total of 14 residents and 17 staff at the Menarock Life Essendon aged care facility in Essendon have tested positive to coronavirus, the largest cluster in the state.
Australia's Health Minister Greg Hunt has demonstrated how to wear a face mask while urging Victorians to protect themselves from the state's ongoing coronavirus outbreak."That is - in retrospect - that's really an opportunity missed, perhaps, but we really now need to focus that everyone does the right thing and wear those masks and monitor and focus on that infection control."In total,in what has been one of the deadliest clusters in the country.
"Just like doctors and nurses are in the front line at emergency departments in our hospitals, our aged care working teams, if they have to isolate, if they have come down with it, there isn't that availability of a second line work force to really come in and replace that. And it's our vulnerable patients again that are subject to all of that."Shadow Minister for Government Services Bill Shorten said the outbreak was "terrible news".
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