Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital has confirmed five of its staff members have tested positive for COVID-19. The hospital says the five people work in separate teams and the cases are not thought to be related.
The facility also confirmed seven other workers are in self-isolation. The hospital says there are no COVID-19 patients being treated at the hospital and visitor restrictions have been in place since April. Six staff members at the Royal Women's Hospital have also tested positive. Image: Getty
Hopefully they will be okay soon 🙏
Means their staff are kinda not much good at the whole hygiene thing. Frontline workers 🙄
Meanwhile, the Murdochracy's man in the USA becomes more and more like a dictator
The Chinese Communist Party’s mate, its tag team player WHO is proceeding with the staged inquiry trip. The investigation will be no doubt conducted in designated places with decorated scenes in China leading to a sanitised report. Guess who is going to proofread that? The CCP.
it means its prevention and current protection strategy are not good enough. DanielAndrewsMP Victoria
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