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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Health
Anita Beaumont

376 deaths in 231 days: the Hunter New England COVID-19 death toll this year

Appalling: Laureate Professor Nicholas Talley, from Hunter Medical Research Institute and Medical Journal of Australia, on the region's rising number of COVID deaths. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers

THE number of COVID-related deaths in Hunter New England this year has surpassed 375, with another 27 lives lost.

The region's health authorities say that the virus peaked in mid-to-late July, and that hospitalisations and case numbers are "trending down".

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