Canberra, Nov 3 (TIWN) Australian aged care residents were neglected during coronavirus outbreaks in 2020, a report has found.

The federal government recently published the findings of the independent review of the outbreaks in aged care facilities, Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday.  Reviewers Lyn Gilbert and Alan Lilly found that during coronavirus outbreaks in aged care facilities in 2020 medical records of residents "were often missing, inaccessible or out of date" and some residents "could not be identified".  "Many became dangerously deconditioned, malnourished or dehydrated because of isolation, loneliness and neglect," the report said.