Broken Hill nursing home bracing for ‘worst-case scenario’ after four residents die from Covid
by Tamsin Rose from World news | The Guardian on (#5Y4E8)
Nurses are being flown in from interstate amid staffing shortage after 30 positive cases reported, including inside the Alzheimer's unit
Nurses are being flown in from interstate to ease staffing shortages at a far western New South Wales aged care facility where four residents have died with Covid over the past fortnight.
The fourth death at St Anne's in Broken Hill was confirmed on Wednesday after the outbreak first hit the facility in late March, with 30 people so far testing positive.
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