An 80-year-old man has died of COVID-19 in Queensland.
The Australian man had been travelling in the Philippines and returned home on March 20, Queensland Chief Health Officer Dr Jeanette Young said today.
He tested positive to COVID-19 on March 25 while in hotel quarantine, and was admitted to Prince Charles Hospital.
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He died overnight. He is the seventh victim of the disease in Queensland since the pandemic began.
It is believed the man contracted COVID-19 in the Philippines, and not in Papua New Guinea on his way back to Australia.
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"That is, of course, very sad news for his family and his friends," Dr Young said.
She urged people to take the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as they were able to and it was made available to them.
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