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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Gerard Cockburn

COVID hospitalisations increase slightly with new cases

The ACT is edging closer to 70 per cent triple vaxxed, the latest health data has revealed.

Canberra in the past 24 hours has recorded 696 new cases of COVID-19 with roughly half of the new positives coming from PCR tests.

ACT Health figures show 68.7 per cent of all adults, 16-years and older have received COVID-19 booster shots, while 78.6 per cent of children aged between five and 11-years old had been inoculated.

Saturday's update shows 98.6 per cent of the territory's population aged over 12 have received two doses of a vaccine.

Thirty-nine people are in hospital with the virus with two in intensive care and one requiring a ventilator. There were 35 COVID hospitalisations recorded on Friday.

Of the new 696 cases, 375 tested positive via a PCR test and 321 were from rapid antigen tests.

A total of 53,607 people in the ACT have tested positive for COVID-19 and 34 people have died since March 2020.

Canberra Hospital. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos
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