Australia's death toll has jumped to 67 after two new deaths were announced within minutes of each other.
Australia's death toll has jumped to 66 after Tasmania recorded its eighth death.Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein said "unfortunately" he thinks this won't be the last death from the virus.
"Eight deaths are too many and unfortunately I think there will be more. I think we need to ready ourselves for that.The state has also confirmed four new cases of the virus, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Tasmania to 188. "I know that the measures that we have put in place in terms of the quarantine on the north-west coast have appeared to be extreme but they are necessary and I'm confident that these four new positive cases were all in quarantine."
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