Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I can confirm, as I did in response to the Leader of the Labor Party's earlier question, that the data I have is that in 2022—so far this year—some 587 deaths are reported in residential aged-care facilities that are COVID related. And I note the advice that was provided to us just this week by Professor Brendan Murphy, who continues to make this point, that there were some 4,141 Australians living in residential aged-care facilities who have passed away since 1 January this year. And many Australians, we know around 1,000 per week on average, pre-COVID would pass away in aged-care facilities each week. And what Professor Murphy has reminded us is that, when people are passing away with COVID, that does not necessarily mean that they have passed away because of COVID. That is the medical advice. That is the health advice. And our task is to ensure that all of those in aged care—

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