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NewsColony Australia’s COVID-19 death toll rises to 77 as a woman in Tasmania dies in hospital  A ninth person to die from coronavirus in Tasmania is an elderly woman who was being cared for at a hospital in the state’s north. The 79-year-old died in the Launceston General Hospital, Premier Peter Gutwein said on Friday morning. ‘To the woman’s family, friends, and loved ones – I’m sorry. I extend our condolences and sympathies to you all,’ he said. The death has lifted the national COVID-19 death toll to 77. There have been 6,672 coronavirus cases diagnosed in Australia as of Friday morning and the death toll rose to 77 after a woman in Tasmania died Mr Gutwein announced that tough retail restrictions in the state’s northwest, where an outbreak has shut two hospitals, would be extended for another week. The constraints will now be in place until at least May 3. It also mean schools in the northwest will be closed for the first four days of term two, which will resum...