Australia's Covid aged care deaths 'worst disaster that is still unfolding before my eyes'

 An aged care expert has told the royal commission examining the sector that Covid-19 is “the worst disaster that is still unfolding before my eyes”, and warned that hundreds of residents will die prematurely because of a failure of authorities to act.

Professor Joseph Ibrahim, the head of health the law and ageing research unit at Monash University’s Department of Forensic Medicine, also told the aged care royal commission on Wednesday morning that he believes Australia’s rate of death in residential aged care is the second-highest in the world, behind Canada at 80%, and that “we’re faring very badly”.

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