First Indigenous COVID-19 death recorded

By Tiffanie Turnbull
Updated August 30 2021 - 4:10pm, first published 4:06pm
In Dubbo - where 434 COVID-19 cases reside - just nine per cent of Indigenous people are vaccinated.
In Dubbo - where 434 COVID-19 cases reside - just nine per cent of Indigenous people are vaccinated.

An Aboriginal man from Dubbo in western NSW has become the first Indigenous person to die from COVID-19 in Australia.

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