Families of Epping Gardens residents have shared their anguish as the aged care crisis deepens, while all residents at St Basil’s Aged Care have been moved out of the facility after several staff members test positive for the virus.
Three residents were found dead at Epping Gardens aged care home on Monday when just four staff members turned up to work. Now a whistleblower has revealed the virus-ridden facility has left residents unfed, unshowered and some on the floor.
Daniel Andrews likened the COVID-19 crisis to a public health bushfire. If so, then Victoria is ablaze with spot fires spreading as quickly as new ones are emerging. The catastrophe has exposed the shortcomings of a government that appears constantly on the back foot, writes Shannon Deery.
The boss of the coronavirus-plagued Epping Gardens aged care home has denied claims the centre was locked in a stand-off with health officials, as staff from Austin Health have been brought in to offer “clinical leadership” after 86 residents have been infected.
Shocking stories are emerging from Victoria’s deadly aged-care crisis with grief-stricken loved ones revealing their agony and outrage as parents and grandparents die alone without basic care. It comes as the state’s total fatalities overtook the number of deaths combined in the rest of Australia.
Residents starved and unwashed for days. Staff calling 000 for help amid COVID shortage. Army personnel scared for their own safety. Inside the aged care crisis as Melbourne’s coronavirus death toll spirals.
A woman who was arrested after failing to wear a mask and provide her details to police has filmed herself “serving” officers and demanding her details be removed from the system. It follows a long line of incidents by “Karens” who refuse to wear masks.
A top cop has slammed Melbourne’s anti-maskers as selfish attention seekers prepared to endanger the lives of other people to get social media likes.
Nestled in a quiet industrial estate, the Hells Angels Thomastown clubhouse has been the focus of intense law enforcement interest for more than two decades. Now police suspect bikie apprentice Kerry Giakoumis walked in one day and was carried out the next.
A member of the Australian Defence Force who worked at a Craigieburn testing centre is among Saturday’s 357 new coronavirus cases, it has been revealed. Five people died of the disease overnight as dozens of Melbourne nursing homes grapple with the outbreak.
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