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Casual aged care workers will be eligible for paid pandemic leave after a Fair Work Commission decision to try to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The ruling grants paid pandemic leave to staff working in residential aged care under the ...

The COVID-19 crisis in Victorian aged care homes is worsening as the St Basil’s aged care home has been evacuated and residents taken to private hospitals, according to the Nine papers. St Basil’s had been taken over by the federal Government ...

Clothing company Lorna Jane has been fined $40,000 for claiming it sold "anti-virus activewear". The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) last week issued three infringement notices totalling $39,960 to the Brisbane clothing company for alleged unlawful advertising in relation to COVID-19. ...

Nurses are required to maintain patient confidentially due to their legal, moral, ethical, employment and professional duties as they are trusted with a patient’s most intimate and personal information. This trust is often a challenge to maintain when working in ...

Australian researchers are testing fabric samples from gown manufacturers to find out how to best keep healthcare workers safe from COVID-19. The Medical Device Research Institute (MDRI) team, based at Flinders University, is testing the fabrics for resistance to bacteria, viruses ...

Aged care residents died at three times the normal rate in the UK during the COVID-19 peak in April, according to official government statistics. On April 12, 1300 people died in care homes in comparison with 407 the previous year ...

Scientists from around the world are pushing for recognition that it is possible COVID-19 can spread through airborne transmission. In an open letter, 239 experts from a range of science and engineering fields, including virology, aerosol physics and medicine, appealed ...

Just under 14,000 New Zealanders have signed a petition calling for an end to the pay disparity between the country’s registered nurses who work in aged care and their counterparts in public hospitals. “Registered nurses who work in aged care ...

School leavers who are hoping to study humanities will either have to foot a bill double that of their predecessors or pick different subjects under a new scheme announced by Minister for Education Dan Tehan. On the flip side of ...

It’s low-cost and widely available and yet dexamethasone is the drug that has researchers' tongues wagging after a UK trial showed it reduced deaths among COVID-19 patients. In trial results that scientists called a “major breakthrough”, a low dose of ...