An intensive care nurse at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) who has worked on coronavirus patients has tested positive for COVID-19, forcing 22 other medical staff into isolation. SA Health said the nurse who is aged in her 20s is in isolation at home while she recovers from the virus. She worked in the hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) and became mildly symptomatic late on Friday.
April 15, 2020
A Western Sydney aged-care home is in lockdown after a staff member who tested positive to coronavirus worked six shifts while showing symptoms of the deadly bug. The female staff member worked shifts at the Anglicare Newmarch House in Caddens, and Greystanes Disability Services in Leura while infected. On Saturday, the woman tested positive to COVID-19, leaving health authorities scrambling to identify her close contacts at the Caddens facility, where one resident has subsequently returned a positive swab for the virus. NSW Health says it is waiting for test results from a second ill resident at the aged-care home.
April 14, 2020
Western Sydney Local Health District is facing a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) contest in front of Vice President Catanzariti in chambers (by telephone) in Sydney (Stewart).
April 14, 2020
Department of Human Services & Randall have a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) set for adjudication before Deputy President Cross in Hearing Room 14-1 – Level 14 in Sydney (Merhi).
April 14, 2020
Ozcare is to face a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) to be ruled upon by Deputy President Lake in chambers in Brisbane (Pinder).
April 14, 2020
Helping Hand Aged Care has a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) with which it must deal before Deputy President Anderson in chambers in Adelaide (Watson).
April 14, 2020
Cancer Council Victoria has a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) issue set for resolution before Deputy President Millhouse in chambers in Victoria (Beesley).
April 14, 2020
St John Ambulance has slammed the actions of two men who allegedly assaulted volunteers after a drunken incident in Leonora on Monday. Leonora Police yesterday took two men into custody and enforced a takeaway alcohol sales ban until at least Thursday due to a fight in Leonora which resulted in emergency services personnel being verbally and physically assaulted. Both men, one from Kalgoorlie-Boulder and another from Perth, have been charged with assault. St John Country Ambulance Operations head Justin Fonte labelled the assault “abhorrent” and “unacceptable”.
