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Morning mail: unboosted aged care residents dominate Covid toll, UK warning to Moscow, and unapproved rapid tests
Tuesday: Nearly half of Australia’s aged care homes grapple with outbreaks as the government defends missing its booster rollout deadline. Plus what’s new to streaming this month
If you would like to receive the Guardian Australia morning mail to your email inbox every weekday, sign up here.Good morning. Nearly half of Australia’s aged care facilities are battling Covid outbreaks. The UK warns Moscow that an invasion of Ukraine would be met with “massive consequences for Russia’s interests and economy”. And what’s new to streaming in Australia.
Unboosted aged care residents are dominating Australia’s Covid death toll, with almost half of the country’s aged care homes battling outbreaks. It comes as the Morrison government defends missing its own booster rollout deadline. More than a quarter of aged care staff say their workplace is not giving them free rapid antigen tests, with nearly 20% reporting they’ve had to find and buy their own kits before working. Trade unions have lashed the prime minister, Scott Morrison, and the Coalition over the findings of the new survey from the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Foundation, saying it was “an indictment on this government” that aged care workers were forced to dip into their own pocket for the tests
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