The number of deaths and cases of aged care residents with COVID-19, and the number of residential aged care homes with active cases of the virus, continues to fall.
At 8pm on 24 February 2022, there were 1,014 aged care residents with COVID, which is a 60% decline in seven days. The virus was active in 286 residential aged care homes, which is a 56% fall since 17 February, when 645 facilities across Australia had cases.
The number of deaths of aged care residents increased 10% to 814 this year. The total number of residents who have died with COVID since the start of the coronavirus stood at 1,781, last Friday.
Active outbreaks in aged care homes:
- 125 in NSW,
- 25 in VIC,
- 44 in SA,
- 71 in QLD,
- 1 in TAS,
- 10 in the NT,
- 7 in the ACT,
- and 3 in WA.
Opal HealthCare’s Canterbury Place Care Community in Campsie, 11km southwest of Sydney’s CBD, had 72 cases (four residents have died) and Ridleyton Greek Home for the Aged, in Brompton, an inner-northern suburb of Adelaide, reported 63 cases (six deaths).