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• ‘Absolutely a crisis’: almost a quarter of Australia’s aged care shifts unfilled each week

  02-02-2022 17:30
  
  Disability sector also suffers critical loss of workers as they miss out on government’s promised $400 bonusFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesPost-Covid protection: what happens after you get the virus?Vaccine rollout and rates tracker; cases and data trackerGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingAged care providers estimate about a quarter of all shifts – or the equivalent of 140,000 shifts a week – are going unfilled, while the disability
  
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• ‘I don’t want to die’: the shielders who fear the end of Covid restrictions

  02-02-2022 11:00
  
  Thousands of vulnerable people say they face permanent house arrest as others abandon masks and social distancingShielders are feeling abandoned. In the nearly two years since they were first told to cut themselves off from the world, people whose health conditions made them particularly vulnerable to Covid have seen official support fragment and then lapse, mask wearing become politicised, and lockdowns that have come and gone. But they have remained indoors and afraid, acutely aware of how the
  
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• Family of England rugby player voice ‘pure despair’ at care home visiting rules

  02-02-2022 07:00
  
  David Robinson is facing restricted visits at his care home due to Covid outbreaks despite government rule relaxationCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe family of an England rugby player locked down in a care home have voiced “pure despair” at new visiting rules which mean thousands of care residents will continue to be denied contact with loved ones.Kate Skillen, whose father, David Robinson, was a flanker in a county team that beat the New Zealand
  
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