An elderly woman has become the 53rd coronavirus death in NSW.
The woman, believed to be in her 80s, died in ICU yesterday.
The last COVID-19 death in NSW was on August 1 — an 83-year-old man who was linked to the Crossroads Hotel cluster in Casula.
Prior to that, the last virus-related death was an 80-year-old woman who died 72 days earlier, on May 21.
“Every death is a tragedy and these are real people not statistics,” the deputy chief medical officer Michael Kidd said at the time about the country’s rising death toll figures.
The total recorded deaths from the virus Australia-wide now stands at 361.
The latest death follows health authorities zeroing in on a coronavirus outbreak linked to a private school in Sydney’s north-west.
Yesterday, the NSW chief medical officer Kerry Chant confirmed the Tangara School for Girls outbreak had grown to 19.
The source of the cluster at the Cherrybrook school remains under investigation, but health authorities are probing a retreat organised by the nearby Eremeran Hills Study Centre.
On Wednesday, a spokesperson for the school rejected any responsibility for the retreat.
“Eremeran is a third-party provider of after school care, a homework centre and other activities and retreats for the community,” the spokesperson said.
“Bookings are undertaken directly with the organisation and the school plays no role in organising or monitoring attendees.”
The spokesperson said the school had not organised extracurricular school activities and camps since March.
–ABC
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