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Witnesses provide damning testimony of the tragedy at St Basil’s Homes for the Aged in Melbourne in 2020, where 50 residents died due to infection and neglect.

Operators of Melbourne Covid-ravaged nursing home will have to give evidence despite claim it could incriminate them

The inquest into the COVID deaths at the aged care home needs to point the finger at those who must be held to account.

It took four days for the federal government agency meant to keep aged care residents safe to take any action, after it was told by St Basil’s nursing home that a staff member had tested positive for coronavirus last July.

It took four days for the federal government agency meant to keep aged care residents safe to take any action, after it was told by St Basil’s nursing home that a staff member had tested positive for coronavirus last July.

It took four days for the federal government agency meant to keep aged care residents safe to take any action, after it was told by St Basil’s nursing home that a staff member had tested positive for coronavirus last July.

Decision to stand down staff at St Basil's amid the outbreak was made without consideration of the context, doctor tells the court

His co-author, Professor Gilbert, said: "An independent review, to be credible, has to have some sort of official standing. It has to be commissioned by someone – who else would commission it other than the department that is responsible for aged care?" It made sense not to include the regulator in the terms of reference because that would have been too big an undertaking, Professor Gilbert said. A spokesman for federal Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck said the Aged Care Quality and Safe...