Senior aged care staff will be forced to give evidence into the deaths of 50 residents during a COVID-19 outbreak, almost five years after they first objected.
St Basil's Home for the Aged chairman Kon Kontis and manager Vicky Kos sought to be excused from participating in the inquest on the grounds of possible self-incrimination.
They were managing the Fawkner facility in Melbourne's north when 50 residents died during Victoria's second COVID-19 outbreak in mid-2020.
