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The unlikely victims of our COVID downturn – Noosa News

Desperate doctors are surviving on JobKeeper handouts, and sacking nurses and receptionists as COVID-19 scares away patients.

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Desperate doctors are surviving on JobKeeper handouts, and sacking nurses and receptionists as COVID-19 scares away patients.
More than 385,000 workers in health care and social assistance are relying on the Federal Government’s JobKeeper payment, latest Treasury statistics reveal.
Medical clinics are among 86,000 businesses in the health sector that have pocketed the wage subsidy in April – making up nearly 10 per cent of the applicants.
Doctors on the front line of the pandemic have had to …

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