More than 160 Queensland residential aged care facilities are dealing with active COVID-19 outbreaks, with the third Omicron wave threatening to hit harder than the January peak.
The last two weeks of July and all of August are expected to be "high-risk periods for aged care"
That is teetering close to 1,000 beds – the equivalent of the entire Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Queensland's largest public health facility – being taken up just to treat COVID-19 and flu patients.Non-urgent elective surgery is already being hit hard across the state. Paul Sadler, the interim CEO of the Aged and Community Care Providers Association , warned the third Omicron wave was likely to have a major impact on nursing homes.
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