Victorian nurses ask for urgent PPE as more than 730 health workers sick with Covid-19

Letter to Daniel Andrews outlines distressing' situation where nurses are not being given N95 masks and there isn't enough PPE'

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Nurses have written to Daniel Andrews asking to urgently know what's being done to protect and care for Victorian nurses" as more than 730 health workers in the state remain sick with active infections of Covid-19.

The letter to the premier, seen by Guardian Australia, states the situation is still inadequate months after the outbreak started".