Senate debates

Tuesday, 8 February 2022

Questions without Notice

COVID-19: Aged Care

2:11 pm

Photo of Richard ColbeckRichard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services) Share this | Hansard source

Since 1 January this year, there have been 12,088 infections in residential aged care in Australia. That's residents who have contracted the virus. Of those, the latest data that I've received is that 587 have passed away. I might add at this point that those just over 12,000 infections in 2022 are off the back of over two million infections in the Australian community. Two million—

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