NSW decision to lift Covid restrictions linked to hundreds of aged care deaths
Not-for-profit aged care boss says his warnings were ignored by Dominic Perrottet’s government and cases ‘skyrocketed’ as a result
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The head of Australia’s peak aged care body has linked New South Wales premier Dominic Perrottet’s decision to lift Covid restrictions late last year to the deaths of hundreds of aged care residents.
Appearing before a NSW parliamentary inquiry into the government’s response to Covid-19 on Friday, the chief executive of Aged and Community Services Australia, Paul Sadler, said his organisation – which represents not-for-profit aged care homes – had in December raised the risks posed to the sector from a widespread lifting of restrictions once cases of Omicron began appearing in the community.
Read the original article at The Guardian