Woman, 75, from Ruby Princess cruise ship dies at Caboolture hospital

A 75-year-old woman who was a passenger on the Ruby Princess cruise ship that docked in Sydney has died of coronavirus in the Caboolture hospital. It comes has 31 new cases have been confirmed, raising the Queensland total to 656.

A 75-year-old woman who was a passenger on the Ruby Princess cruise ship that docked in Sydney has died.

The woman died at the Caboolture Hospital. It is the second death in Queensland after Garry Kirstenfeldt, 68, died in hospital last week.

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It comes as 31 new cases have been confirmed in Queensland, taking the state’s total to 656 cases.

Fifty-seven people are being treated in hospital, three of them are in intensive care.

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A man in his 80s also died of coronavirus overnight, taking Victoria’s death toll to four.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk this morning said that 86 international passengers had been affected by the new quarantine measures that came into affect overnight in Queensland.

She said everyone was abiding by the self-isolation rules and urged everyone to stay in their states.

“There is no Easter holidays this year,” she said.

Since Queensland shut its borders last week, 13,483 vehicles have been intercepted by police.

Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski said 833 people have been given a direction to quarantine, 8333 have been considered exempt after being stopped at the border, 336 were granted entry on compassionate grounds, 946 people have been given interim travelling arrangements and less than 100 people have been turned around.

“I should start with saying while we in the police will show compassion and understanding when we deal with the community, we will not be being very tolerant of anyone that wilfully does not comply with directions of the chief health officer,” he said.

“And as of yesterday police had the ability to issue penalty infringement notices and they will be issuing them when they are appropriate.”

Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski. Picture: Jerad Williams

The Deputy Commissioner said police were still seeing people who think it’s okay to invite friends over for a party.

Police now have the powers to break up house parties and even issue fines if more than 10 people are in one home.

Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said this obviously didn’t apply to people who lived with 10 others under one roof but she urged those residents to not invite anyone else over.

Dr Young said Queensland did not have “significant transmission” locally.

Health Minister Steven Miles said the rate of growth last week was half of that the week before.

“We are flattening the curve, largely by social distancing as well as a reduction in the number of people returning from overseas, returning from countries with high outbreaks,” he said.

“We expect 350 people to arrive today, down from 7000 a day (in recent weeks).”