Scott Morrison defends aged care minister who didn't know number of Covid deaths

Richard Colbeck apologises for federal government's role in aged care outbreaks but denies it was absent'

Scott Morrison has declared he still has confidence in his aged care minister after Richard Colbeck came under pressure at a Senate inquiry and was unable to recall how many people had died in aged care during the pandemic.

Colbeck apologised on Friday for the times when the Morrison government didn't get everything right" in dealing with aged care outbreaks - but insisted it had been prepared for what it sincerely believed to be the worst-case scenarios.