Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Tuesday’s Victorian government announcement of a statewide code brown for the next four to six weeks, and the intent to recall ...

The state government has brought in the measure due to the number of healthcare workers either diagnosed with Covid or forced to isolate as close contacts. It’s estimated around 5000 workers are off ...

Victoria has declared a “pandemic code brown” for public hospitals statewide as both COVID-19 hospitalisations and the number of staff on leave reached a record high. The emergency code is designed to ...

The alert in Victoria has brought a newly urgent daily reckoning: in the chain of decisions, did the one I took help or harm someone? “Get out of my way, it’s a code brown.” “What’s a code brown?” ...

But with falling numbers in hospital, intensive care admissions and combined with the increasing booster rates, the emergency measures were removed on Monday. Hospitalisations fell from almost 1,200 ...

Victoria's hospital system is under "extreme pressure" due to steadily high COVID-19 infections and staff shortages. But what exactly is 'Code Brown' and what measures will be put in place? Victoria ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A statewide code brown has been called at Victorian hospitals after a record number of COVID-19 admissions and widespread furloughing of ...