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    Australian Federal Government Cops Heat For Aged Care

    zenger.newsBy zenger.newsJune 1, 2021No Comments3 Mins Read
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    SYDNEY — The Morrison government is under renewed pressure over its aged care coronavirus response after dropping a rule to ensure staff does not work across multiple sites.

    Victoria is on tenterhooks with 11 new cases of coronavirus including nursing home residents and staff, stoking fears lockdown may continue beyond seven days.

    It emerged on May 30 the federal government scrapped a requirement for aged care workers to only work at one facility in November last year.

    Despite Victoria’s concerning outbreak, the rule wasn’t reinstated until the Commonwealth designated Melbourne as a coronavirus hotspot on May 31.

    The Royal Freemasons aged care facility in Footscray is seen, in Melbourne. (Daniel Pockett/AAP Image)

    Health Minister Greg Hunt said about 4.7 percent of aged care staff had worked across multiple sites as he stressed the importance of flexibility in periods without outbreaks.

    He said case numbers were the main factor in determining whether the single-site rule was in place.

    “That is something that has been well established in consultation with the states, and so once that was reached then the definition was triggered,” Hunt said.

    Labor’s health spokesman Mark Butler was scathing of the decision to lift the ban in November.

    Scott Morrison told parliament: “The government is indeed responsible for the national vaccination strategy, right across the country.” (Lukas Coch/AAP Image)

    Butler tweeted “Scott Morrison doesn’t know how many aged care residents or workers have been fully vaccinated. His Government has neglected aged care residents and workers. Aged care is the Commonwealth responsibility. They were supposed to be fully vaccinated by Easter!”

    “This latest outbreak in aged care is a direct result of Scott Morrison’s gross negligence and dangerous complacency,” he told reporters in Canberra.

    “If today’s events don’t convince Scott Morrison and his ministers that a speedy, effective vaccine rollout is a race, a race against this virus, a race against the variants of this virus, in particular, I don’t know what will.”

    Hunt said a vaccinated 99-year-old woman, who is now in hospital, had contracted the disease at the Arcare home in Melbourne’s west but had not shown symptoms.

    A second resident, 95, has been retested on medical advice.

    Of Australia’s 910 coronavirus deaths, 685 have been aged care residents.

    Politician Murray Watt tweeted “The Morrison Government funds aged care. The Morrison Government regulates aged care. So whose job is it to vaccinate aged care workers? Anyone but the Morrison Government. You can never count on them, when things go wrong.”

    More than 4.2 million vaccine doses have been administered, a target the government initially set for March.

    Health secretary Brendan Murphy, Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly and Aged Care Services Minister Richard Colbeck are set to face questions about the outbreak during Senate estimates on June 7.

    Hunt has asked Professor Kelly and the expert medical panel to revisit its advice from January that vaccinations should not be mandatory for aged care workers.

    “That was not recommended at the time and we have asked the medical expert panel to review precisely that question,” he said.

    June 3rd national cabinet meeting of Morrison and state and territory leaders will consider the fresh advice.

    (Edited by Vaibhav Vishwanath Pawar and Praveen Pramod Tewari)



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