Concerns over flu outbreak death toll in nursing homes

Federal health authorities are demanding answers after a second nursing home reported a spate of deaths from Australia's worst flu outbreak on record.

A room in Tasmania's Strathdevon aged care facility, where six residents have died in a flu outbreak. Source: AAP

Six elderly residents have died at Tasmania's Strathdevon aged care facility following seven fatal cases in Victoria.

The Turnbull Government wants to know if more could have been done to prevent them.