Volunteer nurses to get quarantine pay – Deniliquin Pastoral Times

Two South Australian nurses who volunteered to help treat elderly people infected during Victoria’s second wave of coronavirus will be paid while in quarantine after raising concerns they could be left out of pocket.Tanya Clarke, from Mt Gambier, worked with COVID-19 positive patients in aged care at Melbourne’s Epping Private Hospital during almost eight weeks of stage-four restrictions.
Julie Wigzell, from Adelaide, spent seven weeks working at the same facility.
Both nurses, who were contra…

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