An 82-year-old man has become the third Australian to die with coronavirus, the second fatality from an outbreak of the virus at a Sydney aged care home.

NSW chief health officer Kerry Chant passed on the sympathies of NSW Health to the family of the patient, who died in hospital overnight after testing positive to COVID-19 last week.

People wearing masks in Sydney CBD as health authorities work to contain an outbreak of COVID-19. Credit:Getty

He had been a resident at BaptistCare-run Dorothy Henderson Lodge in Macquarie Park, the same aged care facility where a 94-year-old woman who tested positive to the virus died last week. Three staff members and two other residents at the facility also tested positive for the virus.

BaptistCare CEO Ross Low said he had expressed his condolences to the family of the man, who was hospitalised with respiratory illness on March 1 before being diagnosed with COVID-19.