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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Steve Evans

Another COVID death in Canberra as new cases decline

In-depth COVID

Another person has died with COVID in Canberra, taking the number of deaths during the pandemic to 117.

The latest death was a man in his 90s. Most of the deaths have been of elderly people but a week ago a man in his 20s died and earlier in the month a woman in her 30s died.

But numbers of new cases are continuing to fall.

There were 258 new cases in the 24 hours to 8pm on Thursday, with 140 detected with the PCR test and 118 with the rapid test.

There have been 199,919 cases in the ACT during the pandemic (81 short of 200,000).

There were 124 people in hospital with COVID on Thursday, three in intensive care and one on a ventilator. Across the ACT, there were 2054 detected cases.

On the latest death, an official statement said: "Sadly, ACT Health has been notified of the death of a man in his 90s with COVID-19. ACT Health extends its sincere condolences to his family and friends at this difficult time."

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Canberra has recorded another COVID related death; its 117th of the pandemic. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos
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