The ACT government has shortened Canberra's path out of lockdown, with a substantial loosening of restrictions from Friday.
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The mask mandate will ease, and while venue capacity will expand, schools bear harsher restrictions for some time longer.
It comes as the Check In CBR app is upgraded and given the ability to store vaccine certificates.
Chief Minister Andrew Barr on Tuesday urged Canberrans to get their booster shots as soon as they are eligible, so that the population is protected in time for next winter.
ACT government clinics have rolled out 8000 booster shots since last week.
There have been COVID-19 cases associated with 13 Canberra schools in the last two weeks, though only two have seen transmission.
A cluster of cases associated with Wanniassa School junior campus has grown to 50, which includes household contacts and tertiary infections.
Erindale College also had transmission on site with fewer than five cases linked to the campus.
The majority of COVID-19 infections in Canberra's schools have been contracted outside the school environment, ACT's chief health officer Dr Kerryn Coleman said on Tuesday.
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