NewsColony

NewsColony Second Sydney nursing home resident at centre of COVID-19 outbreak dies A second elderly resident has died at a Sydney nursing home at the centre of a coronavirus outbreak, as the NSW Health Minister warns the state faces a “long game” in stemming the virus. The 94-year-old man, who resided at Anglicare’s Newmarch House in Kingswood near Penrith, died this morning. NSW faces a “long game” in stemming the coronavirus despite doing much better than forecast, the state’s Health Minister Brad Hazzard says. There have been 21 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, taking the state’s total number of confirmed cases to 2957. There are 245 people being treated in hospital, including 21 in intensive care and 17 on ventilators. This was in sharp contrast to predictions last month, says Mr Hazzard, when the NSW Government thought there could have been as many as 700 deaths by now. The stringent social distancing measures, improved handwashing and people not tra...