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‘Real risk at the frontline’: how Australia’s health workers are getting Covid-19 – The Guardian

The pressure on staff as they deal with the resurgence of the coronavirus has been ‘immense’, the hospital peak body says

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There were 381 active infections in Victorian healthcare workers announced on Sunday an extra 81 since Friday. And that figure doesnt include the hundreds of healthcare workers now furloughed while awaiting test results after being in close contact with a known case.
The infections have been fuelled by inconsistent training in use of personal protective equipment, amid a lack of transparency surrounding how the virus is being acquired and spread throughout workplaces such as hospitals and aged …

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