A health expert warns Indigenous people infected with COVID-19 may be missing out on crucial treatment, as reporting systems struggle to keep up with soaring case numbers. EllaMareeAB abc730
A health expert warns Indigenous people infected with COVID-19 may be missing out on crucial treatment, as reporting systems struggle to keep up with soaring case numbers.Health authorities no longer have a clear picture of how many Indigenous people have COVID-19, Dr Jason Agostino saysOnly Victoria and NSW have mechanisms to record Indigenous status when registering rapid antigen test results
But Dr Agostino said since Omicron has taken hold, health authorities no longer had a clear picture of how Indigenous people were being impacted. "This isn't some problem with counting numbers and spreadsheets — this is about patient care and it's really being impacted by a lack of action." Following the reopening of state and territory borders, Omicron is putting health systems and vaccination rates to the test as the virus infiltrates the far reaches of Queensland and the Northern Territory.
Aged care residents have been evacuated to the mainland, and a temporary morgue was sent to the island following a grim warning from health authorities that the community could lose up to 60 people to the virus.
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