10 Aug 2022

Health experts want at-home Covid-19 deaths investigated

From Morning Report, 7:27 am on 10 August 2022

Eighty-seven people have died in their homes from Covid-19 since March and public health experts are calling for their deaths to be investigated.

The figure means on average four people a week have been dying from the virus in their homes since the Omicron outbreak hit.

But little is known about who they are, or what happened.

Here's investigative journalist Anusha Bradley.