A WA nurse who went to Melbourne to help with its coronavirus outbreak has been diagnosed with COVID-19, the Australian Nursing Federation has said.
Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) state secretary Mark Olson said the woman was working in aged care with five other WA nurses, who had now been deemed close contacts.
"At this stage they've been told they'll have to quarantine for two weeks in Melbourne," he said.
"Then they'll face a further two weeks of quarantine back in Perth.
"The nurses were told when they left Perth [that] were they to contract COVID-19 they'd be brought back to serve out their quarantine in WA."
The nurses are currently in quarantine in one of the hotels reserved for healthcare workers in Victoria.
"They all just want to come home," Mr Olson said.
Families worried, ANF says
Mr Olson said many other people who had contracted COVID-19 had been brought back to WA.
"Their families are concerned for them, they're on the other side of the country and they're not happy about the fact that the [WA] Government doesn't have any plans at this stage to get these nurses home," he said.
The group had been in Melbourne for more than three weeks.
Mr Olson said the aged care facility the nurses were working at had "essentially lost all its staff".
"I think it's hard to appreciate for those of us in Western Australia, where things are relatively normal, the impact that the pandemic has had, not just in the aged care sector but right through the public sector hospitals," he said.
"Elective surgery has been cut back or cancelled because they're needing the nurses to replace entire workforces in aged care areas."
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