One in 10 COVID-19 deaths from nosocomial infection: report
Factors included patient agitation and wandering, poor ventilation and lack of testing, review finds
More than 10% of Victorians who died from COVID-19 last year acquired the disease in hospital, a government report reveals.
Some 266 patients hospitalised with COVID-19 likely acquired the coronavirus after admission, and 85 of these patients died, according to the report led by the state’s Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton.
