Australia finds more coronavirus infections in nursing homes

Healthcare workers administer coronavirus disease tests at a drive-through testing center on the first day of a seven-day lockdown as the state of Victoria looks to curb the spread of an outbreak in Melbourn on May 28, 2021. (Reuters)

• Victoria state began a seven-day lockdown on Friday due to a cluster in its capital Melbourne
• The vast majority of Victoria‘s 820 coronavirus deaths have been in nursing homes

MELBOURNE: Authorities say a COVID-19 cluster in Australia’s second-largest city has spread into to nursing homes.
Victoria state began a seven-day lockdown on Friday due to a cluster in its capital Melbourne.
State health authorities on Monday announced 11 new cases.
A second staff member and a 90-year-old resident of the Arcare Maidstone Aged Care facility in Melbourne were among the new infections. The first infected staff member was reported on Sunday.
The second staff member had also worked at the BlueCross Western Gardens nursing home in Melbourne last week and had not been vaccinated.
The BlueCross facility has gone into lockdown after the news.
Health Minister Martin Foley described the cluster spreading into aged care homes as a “very great concern to the Victorian government.”
The vast majority of Victoria‘s 820 coronavirus deaths have been in nursing homes.