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Australia’s largest aged care provider left in limbo about staff Covid vaccines six weeks into rollout – The Guardian

Exclusive: Bupa says it has yet to receive any plan from the government on when its workforce will be immunised

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Australias biggest private aged care provider says the government gave it no plan for the vaccination of its aged care workforce prior to last weeks AstraZeneca announcement, and says it is now waiting on authorities to finish rethinking their strategy.
Aged care staff were initially supposed to be vaccinated as part of the highest priority cohort under phase 1a a recognition of the risk they pose for transmission into aged care facilities. The government, though, has shifted its plans and is yet…

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