St Basil?s offered tour to family of woman who had died after contracting Covid there, inquiry hears

Four months after losing her mother to Covid-19, Kathy Bourinaris received a call from her mother's nursing home offering her a tour.

Staff at St Basil's Home for the Aged wanted to know if Fotini Atzarakis was still interested in respite care and the family was invited to look around the Fawkner facility.

It was during a two-week respite period that Atzarakis contracted Covid-19 at the home. She died in hospital days later.

Bourinaris told an inquest into 45 deaths at the home during the July 2020 coronavirus outbreak that the call made her feel sick and she had to pull over.

She's only thankful her father wasn't in the car when the call came in.

"That would have destroyed him," she said.

She still hasn't been able to share that call with him knowing it would hurt him to think management didn't remember what happened to his wife, but she gave AAP permission to publish details of the call.