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Guest<p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Victoria will start testing elective surgery patients for coronavirus a week before their operations, the state government announced today. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Public and private patients will be swabbed and then asked to self-isolate to stop them potentially catching the virus and bringing it into hospitals.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>If a patient tests positive their surgery will be postponed until they have recovered, unless the surgery is urgent in which case the operation will still go ahead.</p><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”>
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</noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>Victoria will start testing elective surgery patients for coronavirus a week before their operations.
Pictured: Staff at the Menarock Life aged care facility which has 28 cases</p></div><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”>
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</noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>A staff member carries a delivery at the Menarock Life aged care facility, where a cluster of some 28 new infections had been reported</p></div><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”>
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</noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>Pictured: Shoppers wearing face masks at the Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne</p></div><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>As Victoria battles a huge outbreak with 270 new cases on Tuesday, the state government has told public hospitals to keep 25 per cent of beds free.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said that potentially hundreds of patients are expected to be hospitalised with the virus in the coming weeks. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>’There’s often 10 per cent to 20 per cent of all coronavirus infections who require hospitalisation, so that’s a couple of hundred individuals at least,’ he said. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>The Victoria government also has agreements with most major private operators to increase capacity if the outbreak worsens. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”> Minister for Health Jenny Mikakos said: ‘We understand the anxiety patients can feel when waiting for surgery and we thank all Victorians for their patience during these challenging times.</p><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”>
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</noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>A staff member sanitises her hands outside the Menarock Life aged care facility in Melbourne</p></div><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”>
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</noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>The Royal Melbourne hospital has set up a specialist COVID-19 ward for elderly patients from aged care homes</p></div><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”>
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</noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”> People wait in line out the front of the Royal Melbourne Hospital to be tested for the virus</p></div><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>’Testing patients prior 파라오카지노 to their surgery is the best way to protect both patients and our dedicated healthcare workers from this highly infectious and deadly virus.'</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>It comes after a Melbourne man in his 80s became Australia’s 109th death on Tuesday afternoon and infections at aged care homes in the city increase.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>A total of 28 cases are linked to the Menarock Life Aged Care Facility in Essendon, making it the biggest aged care outbreak to date, while 13 have been linked to the Glendale Aged Care Facility in Werribee.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>A third aged care home, Estia Health in Ardeer, has also seen a jump in cases, with 13 residents confirmed to have the virus on Monday.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Professor Sutton described the growing aged care clusters as a challenging situation.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>’Often it’s a single staff member or a few staff members, but there are a few significant outbreaks with a number of residents,’ he said on Tuesday.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Several residents of the Menarock Aged Care facility have been taken to hospital for treatment but Prof Sutton said that was not necessary for all aged care residents who contracted the virus.</p><div><div data-track-module=”am-related_carousel^related_carousel” data-track-selector=”.rotator-panels a:not([class*=external])” data-dm-rotator-rotate=”false” data-track-pos=”static” data-preferred-shared-network-enabled=”” data-dm-rotator-auto-init=”” id=”p-28″ class=”related-carousel with-fb-or-tw news half” data-dm-rotator-active-class=”active” data-dm-rotator-page-count=”1.0″ data-dm-social-article-auto-init=”” data-dm-rotator-page-size=”1″> <div class=”rotator bdrcc”> <div class=”rotator-title”> <h2>RELATED ARTICLES</h2> <ul class=”rotator-pages link-xocc”> <li class=”rotator-prev”>Previous
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</div></div> </div><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Government advice has been for staff at aged care facilities to wear masks and movement between residences limited, but Prof. Sutton said if cases continued to rise guidelines could be reviewed.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>’They should really minimise movement of staff between facilities which has always been part and parcel of the aged care workforce, but they really need to consider minimising that to the fullest extent possible, and also map where the workforce are,’ he said.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>’They’re some of the things that we would review at the end of the week if there is ongoing transmission in some of these settings.'</p><div class=”moduleFull mol-video”><div><div itemprop=”video” itemscope=”itemscope” website content=”Casula Kmart closed for cleaning after worker contracts COVID-19″ itemprop=”name” /><meta content=”PT04M30S” itemprop=”duration” /><meta website itemprop=”thumbnailUrl” /><meta website itemprop=”contentURL” /><meta content=”2020-07-14T01:14:24+0100″ itemprop=”uploadDate” /><meta content=”576″ itemprop=”height” /><meta content=”1024″ itemprop=”width” /><meta content=”Kmart in Casula Mall is closed for cleaning after store worker tested positive for coronavirus.” itemprop=”description” /><div class=”item”> <div class=”vjs-video-container vjs-fixed vjs-span-two-col news” id=”v-4532246150848753965″> <video controls=”” class=”video-js vjs-default-skin” website Productions","playerId":"default","title":"Casula Kmart closed for cleaning after worker contracts website in Casula Mall is closed for cleaning after store worker tested positive for coronavirus.website preload=”none”> <source website type=”video/mp4″></source> </video> </div> </div> </div></div></div><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”>
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</noscript> </div> <div><div> <span></span> <div></div></div></div><div><div> <span></span> <div></div></div></div><p class=”imageCaption”>Casula Mall on Monday night (pictured) where a Kmart worker tested positive for coronavirus </p></div><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>The Royal Melbourne hospital has set up a specialist COVID-19 ward for elderly patients from aged care homes.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>It comes as south-west Sydney suffers an outbreak with 28 cases linked to the Crossroads hotel in Casula. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Kmart in the town has been closed after an employee caught the deadly disease from a friend who went to the pub. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>The outbreak has led the Queensland government to ban travellers from Sydney’s COVID-19 hotspots – less than a week after the Sunshine State opened borders to their southern neighbours. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>The NSW government has introduced stricter operating rules for pubs with a <span style=”font-size: 16px;”>limit of 300 people regardless of size, and group bookings capped at 10 people. </span></p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Meanwhile, South Australia has postponed its border opening for travellers from the ACT and NSW, which was scheduled for 20 July.</p><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”>
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