'Ants crawling from wound': horrifying scenes at coronavirus-hit aged care home in Melbourne

Exclusive: video and pictures show resident left with ants crawling over bloodied bandages on her legs as staff report dreadful conditions

Horrific footage of a 95-year-old woman left to languish in a Melbourne aged care facility struck by Covid-19 shows ants crawling from a wound on her leg, and the bandages around it crusted with blood.

The footage and photos, described by the federal aged care minister as heartbreaking", were taken inside Kalyna Care, a private residential home in Melbourne's north-west, on Tuesday, some two weeks after the virus was first identified in one staff member.