Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

Very importantly, one of the things we've sought to do right from the outset, when we set out in February the national strategy of containment—to flatten the curve and build the ability to deal with every situation, to go to the previous question—is to seek to save every life, fight for every life, because, as the Prime Minister said then and again today, every life matters. Against that background, what we've sought to do is twofold. Firstly, it is to build that capacity within the aged-care sector, to ensure that there is funding, to ensure that there are the places. We've boosted the capacity of the aged-care sector from $13 billion to $22 billion to $23 billion to $24 billion and to $25 billion. In addition to that, each day now we have a report from the Victorian Aged Care Response Centre, set up jointly with the Victorian government, on the activities and actions and on the outcomes and the sad losses. That is provided by the Victorian Aged Care Response Centre. That is a joint partnership with the Victorian government. That sets out the transfers—now over 480 transfers, for example—that have been carried out, that sets out the work of the ADF and that sets out the terrible losses and figures.

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