Homes ordered to lift bans on visitors
Scott Morrison has told nursing homes to allow visitors to see their loved ones unless there is a serious medical reason.
Scott Morrison has told nursing homes to allow visitors to see their loved ones unless there is a serious medical reason.
How people are faring during the great coronavirus shutdown depends on their personality, experts say.
A fifth resident of a western Sydney nursing home has died after being infected with COVID-19.
Victorian children could be back at school by May 11 as Chief Health Officer indicates state may scrap its preference for term two home schooling.
Nursing homes are defying the PM’s call to allow residents to have two visitors a day during lockdown.
Teachers’ unions defy explicit health advice that attending school is safe as they resist students’ return to classrooms.
The national cabinet says banning elderly people in residential care facilities from having any visitors risks their wellbeing.
Aged care providers want a daily allowance from the government to cover costs of extra care due to coronavirus.
Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein has asked police to investigate if an illegal dinner party of medical workers led to a coronavirus outbreak.
Two deceased Ruby Princess passengers are the likely source of a cluster that’s closed two hospitals and left up to 5000 Tasmanians quarantined.
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