A 91-year-old woman has become the eighth person to die in NSW from coronavirus.
The woman was a resident at the Dorothy Henderson Lodge aged care facility in Macquarie Park in northern Sydney, where a number of residents and employees have tested positive for COVID-19.
She is the fourth resident from the facility to die, following the deaths of people aged 82, 90 and 95 earlier this month.
BaptistCare, which operates the facility, said the woman had been hospitalised earlier this week.
The woman had tested positive on March 20 but was asymptomatic.
BaptistCare chief executive Ross Low said thoughts were with all those affected.
“Words fail to express the deep sense of sadness and grief we are all feeling at this time,” he said.
The total number of cases connected to the facility is 18, including 13 residents and five employees.
NSW Health has designated the Dorothy Henderson Lodge an “active cluster investigation”, where multiple cases have emerged.
The first case at the lodge emerged on February 24.
More to come.