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Andrew Brown

Two-thirds of ACT now have COVID booster

The ACT's rate for COVID-19 vaccine boosters sits at 66.6 per cent of eligible people. (AAP)

Two-thirds of Canberra's eligible population have received their COVID-19 booster, as the ACT recorded 773 new infections in the past reporting period.

The ACT has the country's highest vaccination rate for COVID-19 boosters, which now sits at 66.6 per cent of people 16 and over.

Meanwhile, the vaccination rate for children aged five to 11-years-old has lifted to 78 per cent.

Of the 773 new COVID-19 cases, 410 were from PCR test results and 363 were from positive rapid antigen tests.

It comes as a cluster of cases linked to residential campuses at the Australian National University continues to grow.

Hospitalisations from the virus have remained stable, with 41 patients being treated, three of whom are in intensive care.

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