COVID-19 Aged Care Deaths Not Being Scrutinised: MP

Newmarch House resident Patricia Shea looks at her son out of her window through the fence at Newmarch House on April 29 in Sydney, Australia. Ryan Pierse/Getty Images

The federal government should be scrutinised more over the rising number of COVID-19 deaths in aged care, an independent MP says.

More than 3000 Australians have died with COVID-19 in aged care facilities this year, which is almost triple the number of deaths in the first two years of the pandemic.