Two more residents have tested positive to COVID-19 at the Summit Care aged care home at Baulkham Hills in Sydney’s north-west.
Key points:
- There are five residents confirmed positive at the Baulkham Hills aged care centre
- 96 per cent of residents at the home are vaccinated
- The daughter of one man who tested positive is angry that not all staff at the centre are vaccinated
It brings the total number of residents infected by the virus to five.
In a letter to residents sent last night, Summit Care said the residents were “resting comfortably and not displaying any symptoms”.
The operator said the residents would be transferred to Westmead Hospital as a precaution.
Two nurses at the centre have also previously tested positive.
Ninety-six per cent of residents had been vaccinated, but two-thirds of the staff at the centre are not vaccinated, the operator confirmed on the weekend.
Three residents, aged in their 80s and 90s, were confirmed as positive over the weekend.
The nursing home is being deep cleaned and staff and residents are being swabbed for COVID-19 regularly.
The daughter of one of the residents transferred to hospital is furious that staff at the centre had not been fully vaccinated.
Kathie Melocco's parents, Allan and Lona Patrick, share a room at the facility. Her father, 88, tested positive on Saturday and her mother, 87, was still waiting for her results.
“I’m horrified. I had assumed when mum and dad were vaccinated in April, that staff were also vaccinated. I mean, it’s just logical after all the problems that we had in aged care,” she said.
“I had assumed we’d been listened to. And given all the health advice about needing to vaccinate aged care and frontline workers. Even with the confusion, I had assumed that had happened.”
She called on the federal government to ensure all staff members were vaccinated as soon as possible.
“Fix it. Fix it now,” she said.
ABC News: Tim Swanston
)Vaccines not mandatory for aged care workers until September
Advocates for older Australians say they cannot understand why aged care workers would not want to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Vaccines will be mandatory for people working in residential aged care from September.
The chief executive of the Council on the Ageing, Ian Yates, told Channel Nine that while the rollout had been slow, some workers had been reluctant to get their shots.
"I've been calling for this to be a higher priority for a long time, and for it to be mandatory," he said.
"I do not understand for one minute why anybody working in aged care doesn't want to be vaccinated."
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