Last week, the ABC’s coverage of aged care lockdowns and visitor restrictions criticised the lack of publicly available data on coronavirus cases in aged care services.
Now the Department of Health is publishing the latest numbers in both residential care and home care as part of its daily overview of the situation in Australia.
You can find the link here.
Check out the graph from yesterday.
As you can see, 25 residents of aged care homes have so far contracted COVID-19. Of these, four are recorded as recovered and six have passed away.
The majority of these (23) are in NSW with one each in Queensland and Victoria.
“Two of the Queensland residential care cases were residents in a retirement village co-located with a residential facility,” the overview notes.
In home care, seven clients have tested positive – three in NSW, two in QLD, one in Tasmania who has since recovered, and one in Victoria with no deaths so far.
However, the figures don’t include the number of staff infections – which are increasing.
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