The nationwide COVID-19 death toll has topped 500, with lots of new fatalities again originating from the aged care sector in virus-hit Victoria.
A more 11 deaths in Victorian aged care facilities were reported on Sunday out of an overall of 17.
It takes the state’s toll to 415 and the nationwide total to 502.
Federal Labor on Monday will keep the heat on the Morrison federal government over its handling of the aged care sector during the coronavirus pandemic when parliament sits for the first time for 10 weeks.
Opposition health spokesman Chris Bowen says the variety of deaths in aged care homes throughout the crisis has actually been heartbreaking.
” At every test for the federal government they have actually stopped working when it pertains to aged care,” Mr Bowen informed Sky News’ Sunday Agenda program.
” It’s a clear federal government obligation.
” There’s no shared obligation for aged care despite Scott Morrison’s spin – it’s their task.”
Protecting the government’s approach to the crisis, Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said aged care was a susceptible sector in the pandemic.
” If you have got a jurisdiction like Victoria where there is a massive outbreak … the aged care sector undoubtedly is especially exposed,” Senator Cormann told press reporters on Sunday.
$ 1billion assistance
He said the government had put more than $1 billion in place to support the sector during the pandemic.
” But in the end, in the face of this sort of pandemic, there is a practical limit to how reliable that sadly can be in the context of a virus like this,” Senator Cormann said.
Victoria likewise reported 208 brand-new infections on Sunday, the very first time above the 200 mark in 3 days.
Victorian chief health officer Brett Sutton said although the day-to-day case numbers were “jumping around”, he expected they were on a downward trajectory.
” We’re not visiting 300 and 400 once again (cases) in Victoria under my watch a minimum of,” he informed reporters on Sunday.
NSW cases
NSW taped four new cases, including a hotel security personnel who worked at Sydney’s Marriott Hotel.
NSW Health on Sunday said contact tracing was underway as they examined the source of his infection and prospective links to the other infected security personnel.
Queensland recorded simply 2 new cases that were connected to the Brisbane Youth Detention Centre, with an overall of nine cases now connected with that cluster after an employee was diagnosed with the virus on Wednesday.
” The results overnight are motivating but of course we’re not out of the woods yet,” Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk told reporters.
Western Australia recorded one new case, an interstate tourist who had actually returned from abroad and evaluated favorable while in hotel quarantine.
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