Aged care scares, hotel quarantine breaches: It’s groundhog day in Australia’s fight against COVID-19
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And so COVID-19 plays on a weekly loop where everything changes but nothing does, as we stumble around in circles.
The dreadfully slow vaccine rollout is not a race, until it suddenly is in Victoria, where residents are again locked down, exactly one year after that state’s last big lockdown, in circumstances that evoke the same old dread for residents of the southern state.
More than three months into the vaccine rollout the Department of Health has admitted it does not know how many aged care workers have been vaccinated.
Asked whether he expected the operating surplus to be greater than the estimated $3.1 billion by July, Mark McGowan said health spending would impact the final figure.
Aishwarya Aswath spent two hours in the Perth Children s Hospital waiting room for a fever on April 3, before she was triaged in the second-least urgent category, dying soon after seeing a specialist.