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Rod Mackenzie is lucky to be alive. He's one of the thousands of Australians each year who suffer a heart attack. He is now thanking the experts who saved him.

Tasmania Police have arrested a 25-year-old man over the suspected murder of another man whose body was found on a rural property in the state's northwest.

Tasmania records its third COVID-19 death, a 79-year-old woman with underlying health conditions, as Public Health director Mark Veitch says he thinks the state is "past the peak of the initial entry of Omicron into the population".

One effect of La Niña is the later Tasmanian fire season; another effect is it has added to the fuel load — and that is deeply worrying, with many seeming to forget the disasters of the past, one fire expert says.

A myriad of issues is keeping women from getting medical care in regional Tasmania, while "urban refugees" add more pressure, a Senate inquiry has been told.

Guardian Australia brings together all the latest on active and daily new Covid-19 cases, as well as maps, stats, live data and state by state graphs from NSW, Victoria, Queensland, SA, WA, Tasmania, ACT and NT to get a broad picture of the Australian outbreaks and track the impact of…

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Tasmania has recorded 619 new COVID-19 cases, with the number of people being treated in hospital increasing slightly to 17.