Victoria’s deadliest aged care coronavirus outbreaks faced poor infection control and ‘severely depleted staff’, review finds

Frontline workers hired to fill staffing gaps at two coronavirus-ravaged nursing homes had little experience in aged care and spoke just basic English, an independent review finds.

The operators of the Melbourne facilities they stepped into — St Basil’s Home for the Aged and Epping Gardens Aged Care — also had poor infection control, inadequate emergency planning and deficient leadership at the height of the outbreak.

The damning…