Hundreds of Frankston Hospital staff in isolation after outbreak

More than 700 Frankston Hospital staff have been in isolation in the past few days after potential exposure to coronavirus following a major outbreak that has led to more than 50 staff being infected.

New data is showing high risk locations such as Peninsula Health's Frankston Hospital which has 54 infections among staff.Staff at the hospital said they were told on Tuesday about 700 of their colleagues had been sidelined with at least 58 testing positive to coronavirus in one of Victoria's biggest outbreaks among doctors and nurses.

"It's obviously extremely concerning," Australian Medical Association Victorian president Julian Rait said. "There are anxieties around the shortage of staff and the capacity of the hospital to provide its usual services."The quarantined healthcare workers are not expected to return to the hospital until next week at the earliest, while others are not expected to return for another two weeks.

"There was a sense that this big wave was coming towards us and we weren't as prepared as we should have been," one hospital worker said.

orangewater25 see this tweet above and article. I also saw something about it on tv. If Andrews had no evidence on which to claim originally that they were mainly catching Covid outside work, he should not have made that claim.

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Surely only health care workers and those who are in the health care system as the only ones who can physically catch the virus now.. The rest of the people in state are locked up..!!

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