Canberra records 696 new COVID-19 cases

Canberra in the past 24 hours has recorded 696 new cases of COVID-19 with roughly half of the new positives coming from PCR tests.

ACT Health figures show 68.7 per cent of all adults, 16-years and older have received COVID-19 booster shots, while 78.6 per cent of children aged between five and 11-years old had been inoculated.

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Saturday's update shows 98.6 per cent of the territory's population aged over 12 have received two doses of a vaccine.

Thirty-nine people are in hospital with the virus with two in intensive care and one requiring a ventilator. There were 35 COVID hospitalisations recorded on Friday.

Of the new 696 cases, 375 tested positive via a PCR test and 321 were from rapid antigen tests.

A total of 53,607 people in the ACT have tested positive for COVID-19 and 34 people have died since March 2020.

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