Two more residents at an aged care home in Sydney’s northwest have tested positive to Covid as fury grows about why unvaccinated staff were allowed to work there. There have now been five confirmed cases at the home, according to ...
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A vaccinated nurse one of three new positive cases in Victoria, worked with Arcare patients
A vaccinated nurse has tested positive to Covid-19 in Victoria as the state recorded three new locally acquired infections on Wednesday. The state’s health department announced five new local cases about 8.30am, but two of those were previously revealed on ...
More »11 new COVID-19 cases in Victoria, 3 new cases at Arcare Maidstone
Victoria recorded 11 new positive local cases of Covid-19 on Monday, including three in aged care. Arcare chief executive Colin Singh confirmed two new cases at the company’s Maidstone facility in Melbourne’s inner west in a media statement on Sunday. ...
More »Less than 20 per cent of aged care staff vaccinated, Colbeck under pressure
The federal government has faced continued scrutiny this week over vaccination rates in the aged care sector and not being able to accurately say how many workers are fully vaccinated, as the number of COVID cases in the latest outbreak ...
More »Victorian aged care worker tests positive for COVID-19, reports virus has spread to residents
Aged care has been plunged back into the centre of a COVID-19 crisis as a staff member has tested positive for the virus in Victoria. After Victorians headed back into lockdown for seven days at the end of last week, ...
More »New step to contain ‘worrying’ cluster, no aged care cases yet
Brisbane residents will have access to urgent COVID-19 testing even when asymptomatic as fears grow over a cluster in the city. Queensland has confirmed 10 cases of the highly infectious UK COVID-19 strain, four locally acquired, plunging Greater Brisbane into ...
More »3 COVID lessons for a more compassionate aged care system: opinion
While we’re not completely out of the woods yet, we can finally start to see a glimpse of the light at the end of the tunnel with the COVID vaccination rollout now underway across the country. The aged care sector ...
More »US nurse suspended for TikTok flouting COVID safety
A nurse in the US has been suspended after posting a video to social media where she appeared to admit flouting COVID-19 safety measures. A hospital in Salem, Oregon, announced it had placed the nurse on administrative leave after public ...
More »Nurse death toll from COVID-19 as high as World War I nurse casualties: ICN figures
The International Council of Nurses (ICN) has released figures showing that as many nurses have died form COVID-19 worldwide as died during World War I. The latest numbers show that 1,500 nurses have died since the pandemic began, the same ...
More »Mandatory mask ‘fit-testing’ announced for hospitals
Nurses and other healthcare workers will get properly 'fit-tested' N95 masks to protect them from COVID-19, the Victorian government has announced. As reported by The Age, all coronavirus hospital wards in the state will now employ fit-testing to ensure a ...
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