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Victoria has recorded nine new community-transmitted COVID-19 cases, including six previously reported, from more than 42,000 tests as outrage continues after it was revealed the virus had once again entered the state s aged care system.
The new cases, announced on Tuesday, take the total number of infections linked to the outbreak to 54. Two of the new infections are close contacts of previously confirmed cases, while the third remains under investigation.
Health authorities are facing an uphill battle to contain the virus, with more than 4,200 close contacts of positive cases and almost 330 potential exposure sites identified.
READ MORE There continues to be significant concerns around ongoing transmission, particularly in our northern suburbs and [over] many large exposure sites, Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley told reporters on Tuesday.
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Victoria has recorded nine new community-transmitted COVID-19 cases, including six previously reported, from more than 42,000 tests as outrage continues after it was revealed the virus had once again entered the state s aged care system.
The new cases, announced on Tuesday, take the total number of infections linked to the outbreak to 54. Two of the new infections are close contacts of previously confirmed cases, while the third remains under investigation.
Health authorities are facing an uphill battle to contain the virus, with more than 4,200 close contacts of positive cases and almost 330 potential exposure sites identified.
READ MORE There continues to be significant concerns around ongoing transmission, particularly in our northern suburbs and [over] many large exposure sites, Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley told reporters on Tuesday.
The federal government is under fire after it conceded it had no idea how many aged care workers had received the COVID jab.
The aged care sector was meant to be prioritised in the first phase of the rollout but three months down the track roughly 10 per cent or 33,000 people in the aged care workforce are fully vaccinated.
The number is expected to be higher when those who have received the jab outside the workplace in places such as GPs or clinics, but it became clear the government does not have that data during a Senate Estimates hearing on Tuesday.
The Victorian government is now seeking to speed up the process by fast-tracking the aged care workers in the state over a five-day vaccination blitz.
The Grattan Institute has recommended making employer-sponsored visas available to people from all professions provided they earn $80,000 or more a year, with the goal of attracting younger permanent migrants.
Liberal Senator Alex Antic has called for both a comprehensive review into the ABC and the establishment of a standing ombudsman for the public broadcaster.
The ABC has once again come under fire at Senate Estimates for perceived bias and contraventions of its charter in terms of impartiality.
Senator Antic posed questions to ABC’s Managing Director David Anderson over potential biases including those featured in the national broadcaster’s coverage of the recent Hamas-Israel conflict.
The ABC “swings to the favour” of the terrorist organisation Hamas and is “institutionally anti-Semitic” in its coverage of the ongoing conflict, Senator Antic said during Senate Estimates.
He told Sky News the consistent complaining from government MPs and Senators won’t change the inherent flaws in the public broadcaster.
“I think the starting point is a proper review of the ABC,” he said.
“We haven’t really had a proper deep dive into the ABC since about 1983. We need to get