Government is enforcing face masks for aged care workers in Melbourne hotspots – Talking Aged Care

This direction arrives after the Victorian Government announced a full lockdown of metropolitan Melbourne, due to a second wave of COVID-19, and neighbouring Governments ban Victorians from entering their States and Territories.
COVID-19 has popped up in 35 aged care facilities in Melbourne, resulting in deaths of a few older people, raising the State’s death toll to 24. All of the deaths in Victoria have been people aged 55 and over, with a majority of people aged 80 contributing to the death …

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