1200 care packages delivered to Ruby Princess, with love from Wollongong

Kate McIlwain
Updated April 15 2020 - 7:51am, first published April 14 2020 - 10:00pm
Hope in a crisis: Chaplain John Kewa, Good360 founder Alison Covington, Wollongong MP Paul Scully and Kiama resident Nicole Dillon with some of the 1200 care packages being sent to the Ruby Princess crew. Picture: Robert Peet.
Hope in a crisis: Chaplain John Kewa, Good360 founder Alison Covington, Wollongong MP Paul Scully and Kiama resident Nicole Dillon with some of the 1200 care packages being sent to the Ruby Princess crew. Picture: Robert Peet.

At least one in 10 crew members who remain on the troubled Ruby Princess cruise ship have now tested positive for COVID-19.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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