Up to 1,700 Australian Defence Force personnel will be deployed to assist in aged care homes around the country from tomorrow to help deal with the sector's growing COVID19 crisis. 9News
Almost 12,000 aged care residents and staff are currently infected with the virus, and 1176 facilities nationally are battling outbreaks.ADF personnel are being deployed to assist in aged care.
It's a solution the aged care sector has been crying out for, with up to 30 per cent of its workforce off sick or isolating in January. He suggested a number of deaths attributed to the current COVID-19 outbreak would be of people dying with the virus rather than from it.
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