The Department of Health has set up a new online reporting tool on the My Aged Care provider portal for residential aged care providers and in-home and community aged care services to provide weekly reports of numbers of workers receiving COVID-19 vaccinations.

The move comes after sustained criticism of the government’s COVID-19 vaccination roll-out to aged care, with DoH officials admitting in Senate Estimates that they not only didn’t know how many aged care workers had been vaccinated, but how many workers there are in the sector in total.