Australia's coronavirus toll rises to nine with Queensland death

, who passed away in a Perth hospital on March 1. He contracted the virus on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship.at the same NSW aged care centreAustralia's fourth victim, and Queensland's first, was a 77-year-old woman from the Sunshine Coast who died in Sydney following an interstate flight. According to Queensland Health, she also had an underlying medical condition.

The sixth person to die was an 86-year-old man, who passed away in a Sydney hospital on March 17, NSW Health said. An 81-year-old woman passed away in a Sydney hospital on March 19, becoming the seventh victim after close contact with confirmed case linked to Ryde Hospital, NSW Health confirmed., aged in her 70s, became the eighth person to die from the virus. She was taken directly to a NSW hospital after leaving the ship on March 19.

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