COVID-19 Update: 'Previously well' two-year-old child dies in NSW

This is your update on COVID-19 in Australia for March 21.

An ambulance is seen in Sydney, Saturday, January 2022. (AAP Image/Flavio Brancaleone) NO ARCHIVING

An ambulance is seen in Sydney, Saturday, January 2022. (AAP Image/Flavio Brancaleone) NO ARCHIVING Source: AAP

  • A two-year-old child is one of the four people who have died with COVID-19 in NSW, health authorities reported on Monday.
  • Health authorities in the state said the "previously well" child died at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead.
  • Australians will be allowed to enter New Zealand without needing to quarantine or isolate from 13 April, while fully vaccinated travellers from about 60 countries on a visa-waiver list will be able to arrive from 2 May.
  • Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said her cabinet is reviewing mandates, vaccine passes and the country's "traffic lights" with changes to be announced on Wednesday.
  • Two more people with COVID-19 have died in Queensland.
  • Victorians looking to retrain for work in the healthcare sector and other in-demand jobs following the pandemic will be offered subsidised and free TAFE courses, Premier Daniel Andrews said on Sunday.

COVID-19 Australian Stats

New South Wales reported 1,163 patients hospitalised with 34 in intensive care. There were four deaths and 14,970 new cases of COVID-19.

In Victoria, 248 people are in hospital with 20 in ICU and five on ventilators. There were no new deaths and 7,531 new infections.

Tasmania has recorded 1,304 new COVID-19 cases. There are 24 people with COVID-19 in hospital.

In the ACT 39 people are now in hospital with COVID-19, four of them requiring intensive care and 898 new infections have been reported.

In Queensland, there were 6,206 new COVID-19 cases and two deaths. 243 people are hospitalised with COVID-19, with 14 patients in ICU.



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