UPDATE: Tasmania has recorded its fifth coronavirus death. This brings the national death toll to 58. coronavirusau
A man has died while being quarantined in a Melbourne hotel, while a plane carrying more than 100 stranded cruise ship passengers infected with COVID-19 has landed in the city.
"Police will prepare a report for the coroner after a male was located deceased in a hotel at South Wharf last night," Victoria Police said in a statement.It comes a flight from Uruguay touched down at Tullamarine just before 7am on Sunday, carrying about 112 passengers from theVision from the airport shows crews in hazmat suits boarding the plane, while a handful of passengers wearing masks are also seen disembarking then walking towards a smaller aircraft.
Victoria’s deputy chief health officer Annaliese van Diemen told reporters on Saturday the flight would be met by medical staff and ambulances. Any passenger displaying coronavirus symptoms would be taken to hospital, whether or not they have tested positive for the virus, she added.
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