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.