St Basil's managers forced to answer coroner's questions about deadly COVID outbreak
Kon Kontis, former St Basil's chairman and Vicky Kos, director of nursing home, lost their Supreme Court bid to avoid giving testimony to the state coroner.
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Kon Kontis, former St Basil's chairman and Vicky Kos, director of nursing home, lost their Supreme Court bid to avoid giving testimony to the state coroner.
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.
A woman whose mother was one of 45 St Basil's residents to die from COVID-19 last year has urged an inquest not to excuse its operators from giving evidence.
Replacement workers at St Basil's Home for the Aged struggled with identifying residents after the entire workforce was stood down as COVID-19 close contacts.
Nurse Angela Cox has told an inquiry about the conditions at St Basil's Home for the Aged in Melbourne following a disastrous Covid outbreak that claimed the lives of over 40 elderly residents.