Australia has recorded its 100th coronavirus death after a 93-year-old resident of Sydney's Newmarch House died
There are some positive signs for the jobs market with data tracking payrolls showing an improvement through the early weeks of May.The Australian Bureau of Statistics, which is now collating payroll information directly from millions of the nation's businesses, said job numbers had fallen by 7.3 per cent since the middle of March. This was up slightly from the original fall of 7.5 per cent reported earlier this month.At the industry level, there had been a 33.
At the state level, there have been small increases in job numbers across Queensland, Tasmania and the Northern Territory in the past fortnight. But they are continuing to fall elsewhere.The biggest hit to wages has been in Western Australia, down by 7 per cent. WA has the highest average wages of any state in the country.
Her daughter Mary Watson said she "lost her battle with this terrible virus" on Tuesday morning at the aged care facility in Sydney's west.Ms Watson said she understood her mother's test results were positive when she was tested on Friday. If Ms Bacon died while positive with COVID-19, she will have been the country's 100th coronavirus death.
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