Second person dies from coronavirus in Tasmania, taking national toll to 19

An elderly man has become the second person to die from coronavirus in Tasmania.

An interim assessment clinic for the new coronavirus set up near the Launceston General Hospital in Tasmania. Source: AAP

Tasmania has recorded its second coronavirus death, with an elderly man dying at the Royal Hobart Hospital overnight.

It comes after a woman in her 80s died on Monday from the virus in the state's northwest and takes the national COVID-19 toll to 19.

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