Third coronavirus death in Australia as government plans online consultations

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A NSW man in his 80s has died after contracting coronavirus in his Sydney aged care home, taking the nationwide death toll to three. 9News

A close contact is a person who has spent significant time face-to-face for 15 minutes or in an enclosed space, for two hours or more.this morning and are working out who she might have been in contact with.

The 38-year-old woman from the Gympie region is in isolation in the Sunshine Coast University Hospital in a stable condition.ACT Health has been informed that a man in his 40s with COVID-19 may have been infectious when he travelled between Sydney and Canberra on February 28. He travelled from Sydney to Canberra on Qantas flight QF1509 and back to Sydney on Virgin Airlines flight VA651.

Anyone seated in rows 2-6 on the first flight or rows 3-7 on the second flight are advised to self-quarantine and call the Communicable Diseases Control Information line.Authorities are contacting anyone who may have encountered the two officers when they travelled to a meeting at defence headquarters, Russell, in the ACT on February 28.

Anyone working in defence buildings who developed cold or flu like symptoms were told remove themselves from work and get tested for coronavirus.New cases were also announced in Victoria and Tasmania this weekend.Melbourne GP, Dr Chris Higgins and his patients, along with staff, are now required to self-isolate.However, he has called for the Victorian Health Minister to apologise for saying she was "flabbergasted" he went to work with what he thought was a cold.

 

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