St Basil’s deaths are growing with Neos Kosmos’ latest tally of COVID-19-related deaths from the aged care facility at Fawkner at 31 people.
Couple Ilias and Hrissoula Trimbo, who were married for 53 years, were among the list of fatalities. Both residents at St Basil’s, they died within a week of each other; first Hrissoula, and then Ilias.
Other aged care residents of St Basil’s who fell victim to coronavirus, were:
- Apostolis Barboussas
- Marija Rukavina
- Maria Vasilakis
- Eleni Alexiou
- Georgia Mitsinakos
- Theodoros Makridis
- Ilias Takis
- Fotini Atzarakis
- Gina Andrikopoulos
- Nicolina Pingiaro
- Boro Petkovic
- John Dimitriou
- Hrisoula Trimbos
- Ilias Trimbos
- Pavlos Dimotakis
- Theodoula Andreou
- Malama Valkanidis
- Anna Barboussas
- Jakov Pucar
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In the last four days along, there have been 75 coronavirus-related deaths in Victoria of which 54 were from within the aged care sector.
Recently, the national aged care regulator has been accused of a “catastrophic communications failure” causing a “potentially deadly delay” at St Basil’s after it was revealed that it took four days to inform the federal government about the first COVID-19 case at the Melbourne facility.
This delay resulted in an increase in cases with tragic consequences.