April 2, 2020

A second man has died in Toowoomba Hospital from COVID-19, bringing Australia’s death toll to 23.

Health Minister Steven Miles confirmed the 85-year-old died overnight.

The elderly man had recently returned from a cruise.

“The condolences from the whole of Queensland go to that gentleman’s family,” Mr Miles said.

“Each of these deaths reminds us of just how important our effort to slow the spread of this outbreak is.”

There have been 57 new cases in Queensland since Wednesday, taking the State’s total to 835.

Sixty people are being treated in hospital, nine of them in intensive care units.

Darling Downs Health region has had 39 confirmed cases – up two from yesterday.

This 39 includes 30 cases in Toowoomba, four in Oakey, one in Chinchilla, one in Miles, one in Warwick and the two previously notified in Kingaroy.

The greatest number of cases are still in the Metro North region (242), Metro South (191), Gold Coast (165) and Sunshine Coast (79).

On March 25, a 68-year-old man died in Toowoomba Hospital after contracting COVID-19 on the Voyager of the Seas cruise ship.

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