Grave lessons were supposed to have been learned from the 655 pandemic-related aged care deaths in Victoria in 2020. So what went wrong?
As Victoria was in the grips of a Covid-19 second wave that was killing hundreds of people in aged care, the acting chief medical officer, Prof Paul Kelly, said federal, state and territory governments would “redouble our efforts” to make sure the sector was “absolutely prepared” for outbreaks in the future.
On Monday – nine months after the federal government spent $9m to step up Covid preparedness checks in aged care homes, and after the aged care royal commission’s special report into Covid-19 – staff and residents in the sector in Victoria were once again being swabbed and locked down as the virus was detected in two homes.
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