O'Connor Cooperative School and nightclubs Cube, Mooseheads, Fiction added as new ACT exposure sites

The school remains open to those who have not been deemed close contacts from the exposure. ACT Health has identified cases at a number of inner north schools in the past week and is monitoring the situation closely.

Mooseheads, Cube and Fiction Club were exposed to COVID-19 on late Friday night and early Saturday morning last week. They are listed as exposure sites between the hours of about 11.30pm Friday and 2am the next day.

An ACT Health spokesperson confirmed that the case associated with the recent nightclub and bar exposure sites was the Delta strain rather than the Omicron strain.

O'Connor Cooperative School was also exposed on Monday, November 29 and Tuesday, November 30.

The early learning centre joins nearby Lyneham Primary School and the Black Mountain School in O'Connor as schools that have been exposed to COVID-19. The Maribyrnong Primary School in Kaleen has also been recently added to the school exposure list.

The ACT has reported three new cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm on Monday, as four new exposure locations have been announced.

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This comes as three cases were confirmed as the Omicron variant on Tuesday morning. The active total for the ACT comes in at 85.

Testing dropped slightly with 1149 negative tests received in the 24 hours to 9am on Tuesday, down from the previous reporting period, in which 1511 negative tests were returned.

Five people are in hospital with three in intensive care and one on a ventilator. Meanwhile, the percentage of the eligible population who are now fully vaccinated has reached 98.1 per cent.

O'Connor Cooperative School.

Maribyrnong Primary School.

Lyneham Primary School.

Black Mountain School

Majura Primary School

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NSW has recorded 260 new cases of COVID-19 and two deaths as Queensland prepares to welcome fully-vaccinated travellers from next week.

The new cases were recorded from 58,706 tests undertaken in the 24 hours to 8pm on Monday.

The adult vaccination rate is increasing slowly with 94.7 per cent of those 16 and older having had their first dose, while 92.8 per cent have had both.

Queensland is scrapping quarantine for all fully vaccinated domestic travellers from virus hotspots who test negative to COVID-19 as of 1am on Monday.

There will be no restrictions on travellers who have not recently visited hotspots, meaning it will be the first time Queensland has been open to all Australians since April 28, when it shut its border to Greater Melbourne.

Meanwhile, a three-year-old Northern Territory girl with COVID-19 has been transferred to Royal Darwin Hospital.

It is not known if she was symptomatic or the move was precautionary.

The toddler's case was announced earlier on Monday when Health Minister Natasha Fyles said the child had attended Katherine Hospital a day earlier.

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