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Tasmania records 699 new COVID cases, a rise from yesterday's figures

Pop-up clinics are being set up in different locations every day to get five to 11-year-olds vaccinated.  (ABC News: Keane Bourke)

Tasmania has recorded 699 new COVID-19 cases, up from 504 yesterday.

The Department of Health said 16 people were in hospital but only eight were there specifically for COVID treatment. 

One person is in intensive care and more than 3,900 people are in isolation in the state. 

Just over 95 per cent of Tasmanians aged over 12 have now had their second dose of a COVID vaccine and 39 per cent have had a booster shot as well.

The state government is continuing to run pop-up clinics for five to 11-year-olds days out from the return to school.

Today there are clinics at Oatlands RSL, Sorell school and Strahan primary school, with walk-ins accepted. 

On Tuesday, Premier Peter Gutwein said a system fault had led to some double counting of positive COVID-19 cases, when people registered a positive PCR test result as well as a rapid antigen test result.

Public Health deputy director Julie Graham said it had not affected the medical treatment anyone received. 

"The main result was some people did get extra messaging related to being cases and related to being released from isolation," she said.

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