A Melbourne nursing home linked to at least 20 coronavirus deaths has been accused of failing to report an infected staff member to federal regulators.
Providers are supposed to notify federal authorities, which regulate the private system, and the state public health unit within 30 minutes of learning of an infection. "The Victorian public health unit had some delays in both getting tests back and identifying and analysing this was an aged care outbreak," he said.
"There was a five-day window where the Commonwealth had no line of sight or understanding that there was an outbreak at St Basil's," she said. There are 1,186 active cases in aged care, with all 11 deaths reported on Tuesday linked to aged care.Senator Colbeck backed some aged care providers being able to keep smaller outbreaks secret from the public, provided families were notified.
Prof Murphy said the state officials didn't see it as useful to deal with the start of the second wave and felt under pressure to manually track surging cases.
OK, that's it. DPP, time to intervene and indict.