The ACT has reported 13 new cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm Wednesday.
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There are six people hospitalised with the virus, two of whom are in intensive care and both require ventilation.
The new cases bring the active total to 144, while the number of cases associated with this outbreak now stands at 1692.
Meantime, the percentage of the eligible population who are now fully vaccinated has reached 94 per cent.
School exposures
The new cases come after Wednesday's announcement that 17 cases had been linked to the junior campus at Wanniassa school.
Furthermore, St Anthony's Parish Primary School in Wanniassa, Gordon Primary School and Wanniassa School senior campus have all had a positive case of COVID-19 attend campuses in recent days.
Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith said there was concern that the virus could continue to spread in Tuggeranong, Weston Creek and further afield.
"Most of the cases that have been identified so far in relation to Wanniassa junior school campus are transmission that appears to have happened on the school campus," she told ABC.
"There are very few household contacts yet identified, or very few household contact cases who are yet identified.
But we certainly expect, [as] we've seen in other clusters that there will be further household transmission, and I guess that's what we kind of wait to see now, is how much of that transmission has already occurred that may have then on-transmitted."
Around Australia
NSW has recorded 308 new COVID-19 cases and four deaths in the 24 hours to 8pm.
Across the state 93.7 per cent of the population aged over 16 years have been vaccinated with their first dose, while 88.7 per cent are fully vaccinated.
There are 302 COVID-19 patients in hospital with 64 in ICU.
Victoria recorded 1247 new cases on Thursday, after two days of fewer than 1000 cases.
Nine people died, and there are 660 Victorians hospitalised, 114 in intensive care and 78 requiring ventilation.
Eighty-one per cent of the state's population aged over 16 is fully vaccinated.
Goondiwindi is on alert after a COVID-19 case was infectious at a number of supermarkets in the southern Queensland border town.
Mayor Lawrence Springborg says the new case, which is set to be the first recorded in Queensland in nine days, may have caught the virus on a trip to the northern NSW town of Moree, where there is an outbreak.
The patient, who was being treated in Goondiwindi Hospital, has been flown to a facility equipped to treat and isolate COVID-19 patients in Brisbane.
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