Operator of unvaccinated Melbourne nursing home rejects minister’s claim residents opted out
Operators challenge claim by aged care minister Richard Colbeck that some of the Victorian facilities still waiting for the vaccine ‘have chosen not to take the jab’
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The families of residents at an unvaccinated Melbourne aged care home say they are “flabbergasted” by comments from the aged care minister, Richard Colbeck, who claimed those not yet vaccinated “have chosen not to take the jab”.
As the Victorian government announced its fourth lockdown on Thursday, there were 29 aged care facilities in the state that had not yet received their first dose of the Covid vaccine, while 569 facilities had received just one dose. Hours later, the federal health minister, Greg Hunt, revealed the number yet to receive their first doses had shrunk to 16 homes.
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