More people have died in residential aged care from COVID-19 in just two months than during the whole of 2020, a Senate committee has been told. 7NEWS
More people have died in residential aged care from COVID-19 in just two months than during the whole of 2020, a Senate committee has been told.
Despite the large numbers of deaths, Aged Care Services Minister Richard Colbeck has slapped down calls for him to resign. After the government announced up to 1700 Australian Defence Force personnel would be sent into aged care to assist the workforce, just 106 had been deployed. Health officials said the situation was exacerbated in early January due to large numbers of COVID cases in aged care and staff also being on leave.Of those, 479 have been in NSW, 148 in Victoria, 176 in Queensland, 85 in South Australia, three in Tasmania, six in the Northern Territory, 16 in the ACT and two in Western Australia.
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