But while 56% of British aged care homes had staff or residents infected with COVID-19, the proportion was only 8% in Australia, he said. Only four out of 700 aged care facilities in Victoria had been “acutely effected,” he said. “My fear when the COVID pandemic hit in Victoria was that we could have potentially seen far more,” Morrison said. The 113 new cases reported on Thursday was the lowest count since 87 on July 5. “For at least 463 million children whose schools closed due to COVID-19, there was no such a thing as remote learning,” UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said.

Source: Daily Sun August 27, 2020 05:37 UTC