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Here’s the proof we need. Many more health workers than we ever thought are catching COVID-19 on the job – The Conversation AU

Some 70-80% of health-care workers testing positive to COVID-19 in Victoria’s second wave were infected at work, compared with 22% in the first wave.

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Yesterday, the Victorian government released much-anticipated figures showing the proportion of the states health-care workers who caught COVID-19 at work.
Victorias chief medical officer Andrew Wilson said yesterday that 70-80% of health workers testing positive to COVID-19 were infected at work. Thats compared with 22% in the first wave.
That figure, which equates to at least 1,600 people infected in the workplace, is shocking and tragic. This is because occupational exposure of health-care…

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