26/Apr/2020 03:45 AM
Date: 26 April 2020
Location: Mersey Community Hospital, Torquay Rd, Latrobe TAS
7307
Number of people: 1
Details: A health worker at the Mersey Community Hospital who
worked in the COVID-19 ward has tested positive for the virus,
bringing the current state total to 208 cases. A man in his 90s
being cared for at the hospital who had tested positive for
COVID-19 also sadly passed away the hospital this morning, his is
the second death relating to the virus to occur at the hospital
this weekend. This brings the state death toll to 11 people, ten of
them in the North West of the state.
TAS has now had 208 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 virus.