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Health authorities in the Australian state of Queensland have confirmed two new cases of coronavirus on Sunday morning.
A woman in her 30s and an infant, both from the same family in the West Moreton area near Ipswich, had returned positive tests for the disease. The state now has 16 active cases.
The state is managing an outbreak of the virus that emerged from the Brisbane Youth Detention Centre at Wacol, west of Brisbane.
In England, a report has found that nursing homes – where many coronavirus deaths occured – were pressured into accepting patients with Covid-19, while simultaneously being refused treatment for residents by hospitals and GPs.
A report by the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) found homes were told hospitals had a blanket “no admissions” policy at the height of the pandemic. The QNI, a charity which focuses on the improvement of nursing care of people in their own home, found care home residents were regularly refused treatment in April and May.
One in four homes said it was difficult to get hospital treatment for patients, while a third said they had had difficulty accessing GPs and district nurses, according to the report, published by the Independent.
One nurse said: “The acute sector pushed us to take untested admissions. “The two weeks of daily deaths during an outbreak were possibly the two worst weeks of my 35-year nursing career.”
One nurse reported being told to change the status of all the home’s residents to “do not resuscitate” but said staff had refused to comply.
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