Updated
March 05, 2020 10: 57: 58
New South Wales health minister Brad Hazzard has called on the Federal Government to provide emergency funding to help the states battle the spread of coronavirus, after workers failed to show up to an aged care facility where an outbreak occurred.
Key points:
- Brad Hazzard has declared NSW is in “a war with coronavirus”
- He wants it to be easier to access federal funding to deal with outbreaks in nursing homes
- The total number of positive cases in NSW rose to 22 on Wednesday night
Matters came to a head yesterday when NSW Health was forced to scramble nurses to an aged care facility at Macquarie Park, in Sydney’s north, which has been placed in partial lockd