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COVID-19 outbreaks in aged care facilities continue to grow, with providers suggesting more than half will soon be impacted.
Data released late last week showed there were more than 7000 active cases among residents, spread across about 1100 facilities.
But Aged and Community Services Australia chief executive Paul Sadler said that number was only rising.
'I believe there is now a risk we will have over half of all the aged care homes in Australia with outbreaks. That number is likely to continue to increase,' he told the ABC.
With about three-in-four residents boosted as the Omicron variant sweeps the nation, Australian Health Services Research Institute's Professor Kathy Eagar said the federal government's planning had been "completely incompetent".
'Forty per cent of all homes in Australia have an outbreak of COVID. That is really appalling,' she said.
'I think every family should be really concerned about what's happening in
