The Ministry of Health is sad to report the country’s second death linked to COVID-19. The second death is of a woman in her nineties at Burwood Hospital in Christchurch on Thursday.
The woman had recently returned a positive test to COVID-19. As we have seen around the world, COVID-19 can be a deadly disease – particularly for elderly people, and also those with underlying health issues.
New Zealand’s first death linked to COVID-19 was on March 29 on the West Coast, in a woman in her 70s with underlying health conditions.
As in that case, the country’s thoughts will be with the Christchurch woman’s family and loved ones at this time. Understandably, the family will take time to grieve, and we would ask that their privacy be respected.
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