Mandatory reporting starts today, 15 June 2021, for all approved providers of residential aged care services to report and provide weekly updates every Tuesday on the COVID-19 vaccination status of their aged care workforce.

Starting today, 15 June 2021, all approved providers of residential aged care services must report every Tuesday.

It will become mandatory for providers of in-home and community aged care services in the coming weeks.

Reporting is via the My Aged Care portal for providers.

The new reporting requires approved providers to record de-identified data at a service level on the:

• total number of workers at each aged care service, and of those,
• the number of workers at each service who have received a single dose of a COVID-19 vaccine
• the number of workers at each service who have received all required doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Guidance and further information is available via Health.gov.au.