Aged care taskforce to investigate deaths

A cleaner wheels a trolley past an aged care lodge

A cleaner wheels a trolley past an aged care lodge Source: AAP

The nation's Chief Medical Officer is warning of further deaths as the federal government sets up a task force into aged care fatalities since the start of the omicron wave.


Highlights
  • Prime Minister Scott Morrison pledged two one-off payments of up to $400 for each worker to help retain staff.
  • Of about 170,000 aged residents eligible for a booster only 125,000 have had their third jab.
  • 20,000 have either not received a first or second dose.

The federal government launched a task force to look into aged care fatalities. 

Labor has slammed the idea saying it doesn't achieve the systemic change needed in the sector and insists Aged Care Services Minister, Richard Colbeck should resign.

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