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A man in his 50s has become the 23rd victim of the New Zealand coronavirus and the Auckland group’s first death.
He died at Middlemore Hospital and it was the country’s first Covid-related death in three months.
He is the youngest victim of the pandemic to date, with most of the elderly dead who contracted the virus while in a nursing home.
It has been almost six months since Anne Guenole, who died at Gray Base Hospital in Greymouth on March 29, became New Zealand’s first Covid-19 victim.
The 74-year-old man had initially been diagnosed with influenza that was complicated by an underlying health condition, but ultimately tested positive for Covid-19. The 21 hospital staff who treated her had to isolate themselves.
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Her daughter said she was “a beautiful, kind and loving woman, who was very loved.”
The next death was not until April 10, when a 94-year-old woman died at Rosewood Hospital and Rest Home in Christchurch.
It was a 64-bed nursing home and hospital, located just east of the central city of Christchurch in Linwood.
On the same day, the groom’s father connected to what would become Bluff’s wedding group, Chrisanthos (Christo) Tzanoudakis, died of coronavirus.
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Chrissanthos Tzanoudakis, right, and his son Manoli. Manoli’s wedding was the center of the Bluff Covid-19 cluster
The 87-year-old, who has been described as a “beautiful soul,” died at Wellington Hospital on April 10, becoming New Zealand’s third Covid-19 related death.
The next day two more people died, including a Rosewood resident who was a man in his 80s.
A man in his 70s, whose details were not released for privacy reasons, raised the death toll to five.
On April 13, another Rosewood resident, a man in his 80s, died.
But April 14 was the deadliest day for Covid-19, with four dead.
Three men linked to the Rosewood group died. Two of them were 80 years old and one was 90 years old.
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Ashley Bloomfield, Chief Health Officer, is one of the people leading New Zealand’s response to the pandemic.
The fourth victim that day was a resident of a retirement village on the Kāpiti coast. The man and his wife felt ill during four days of self-isolation at their Raumati’s Coastal Villas apartment after a trip to Australia.
On April 17, two people died overnight.
One was in Waikato Hospital, a man in his 90s who was linked to the Matamata group.
The second was a woman in her 80s who had been a resident of a Rosewood nursing home.
The next death of Covid-19 was announced two days later. Ashley Bloomfield, chief health officer, announced that a death in Invercargill the previous Tuesday was “confirmed as being related to Covid-19.”
Then, two days later, on April 21, a woman in her 70s living at St Margaret’s Nursing Home in Auckland’s Te Atatū died.
The next day, another woman in her 70s died, this time from Rosewood.
Jocelyn Finlayson, a 62-year-old woman from Invercargill, died of complications from the coronavirus at Dunedin Hospital on April 23.
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Jocelyn Finlayson died of Covid-19 late on April 22.
Finlayson was one of the rare cases of community transmission in the country and his family is still not sure where he contracted the virus.
The second death that day was a man in his 70s who was a resident of Rosewood.
On April 24, a man in his 60s was the 10th Covid-19 death linked to the Rosewood group.
On April 25, a woman in her 70s died at Waitakere Hospital after being transferred from CHT St Margaret Hospital and Residence.
She was the second resident transferred from St Margaret’s to Waitakere to pass away and has underlying health problems.
Another woman in her 90s, also a resident of St Margaret’s, died from the virus on April 27, the 20th reported death.
On May 2, George Hollings, who was 80 years old, became the 21st death.
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George Hollings was a confirmed death from Covid-19 on May 2.
His family described him as a “true Kiwi guy, a diamond in the rough, who loved to stalk deer.”
And on May 28, Eileen Margaret Hunter, 96, a CHT St Margaret’s Rest Home resident, was the last reported death at St Margaret’s.
On her death notice she was described as “a beautiful lady with a heart of gold.”
