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Victoria declares hospital COVID emergency

Updated January 18 2022 - 4:03pm, first published 11:30am

Ballarat Base Hospital is among six regional Victorian hospitals, and all Melbourne hospitals, under a 'code brown emergency' declared by the state, as the system buckles under COVID-19 admissions and staff shortages.

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