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Cassandra Morgan

FOUND: Investigator grilled over fatal aged care outbreak | Mind Blowing Facts

A COVID-19 outbreak at Epping Gardens nursing home led to the deaths of 34 residents. Photo: AAP

A magistrate has demanded to know why Victoria’s workplace regulator neglected to get a statement from an aged care home’s nursing boss following a fatal COVID-19 outbreak.

Epping Gardens’ director of nursing was “relentlessly criticised” by other staff following the 2020 outbreak, which led to 89 residents and 65 staff contracting the virus, Melbourne Magistrates Court was told.

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