Health
Elderly residents volunteered for COVID checkpoint – Coffs Coast Advocate
A Sunshine Coast MP says allowing elderly residents to volunteer at a COVID checkpoint was an “inappropriate” move.
Member for Fairfax Ted O’Brien has questioned the common sense of senior citizens and an aged care provider after residents volunteered at a COVID-19 checkpoint.
“We love you; we care for you and we don’t want you to be put in harm’s way,” Mr O’Brien said on Thursday as he revealed residents at the Immanuel Gardens retirement village volunteered at the COVID-19 checkpoint at the facility’s entrance.
Mr O’Brien said he was “very” surprised upon hearing of the situation.
“You don’t need a law o…
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