The ACT has reported 19 new cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm Monday.
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The new cases bring the active total to 186.
There are six people in hospital because of COVID. Three of them are in intensive care, and two are being ventilated.
There were 1556 negative tests received in the 24 hours to 9am Tuesday, a slight drop from Monday's reporting which saw 1624 negative tests returned.
Meantime, the percentage of the eligible population who are now fully vaccinated has reached 97.3 per cent.
Testing demand surges
Testing numbers have climbed back up, after dropping to their lowest rates since the outbreak began at the end of October.
The seven-day rolling average of negative tests reported by ACT Health has risen from about 1400 a fortnight ago to 2289 on Monday.
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COVID-19 exposures in some of Canberra's nightclubs have been linked to the uptick in demand for tests, but health authorities say they are confident the growing number of Canberrans seeking tests shows people are still following the rules.
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The new cases were diagnosed from 52,302 tests undertaken in the 24-hours to 8pm on Monday.
There are 196 patients in hospital, 34 of them in ICU.
Some 94.4 per cent of people 16 and older have had one vaccine dose, while 91.9 per cent are fully jabbed.
Victoria has recorded another 19 deaths from COVID-19 and 827 new cases, while the state still hasn't officially hit its 90 per cent full vaccination milestone.
There are 9420 active coronavirus cases in the state and 303 patients in hospital, lowering the seven-day average to 318.
Fourty-four people in intensive care are actively infected and 53 have been cleared, with 23 of those on a ventilator.
The latest deaths take the state's toll from the pandemic to 1299.
A lockdown in the Northern Territory town has been extended amid a COVID-19 outbreak among the Indigenous community, AAP reports.
Residents in Katherine, 320km south of Darwin, will remain confined in their homes for a further two days until Wednesday at 6pm.
It comes as the outbreak grows to 37 cases after a 33-year-old woman and a 67-year-old man from the town were diagnosed with the virus on Monday.
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