Residents confined to their rooms, buzzers ignored and staff completely overwhelmed. Desperate staff speak up about what happened as Omicron swept through
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Rose learned there was an outbreak in her aged care home in New South Wales when “an enormous man” she had never seen before stood over her bed and woke her up at midnight.
“He was all dressed in PPE and said, ‘you have to have a rapid antigen test [RAT] – we’ve got a case of Covid in the home’,” the 81-year-old says.
