THE ACT has recorded 19 new cases in the past 24 hours.
The new cases were announced as the ACT records it first death related to the latest covid outbreak in the territory.
A man in his nineties, who was receiving end of life care at the Calvary Haydon Aged Care facility, died yesterday (September 26).
It brings the total number of covid-related deaths in the ACT, since the beginning of the pandemic, to four.
Seven of the cases reported today were in quarantine during their entire infectious period. At least eight spent part of their infectious period in the community and four cases remain under investigation.
Seventeen of the cases are linked to already-known cases and exposure sites, while the rest remain under investigation.
There are currently eight people in hospital with covid, three of which are in intensive care. All three patients in ICU require ventilation.
At the daily press conference today (September 27), ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr said testing was very high yesterday with 3866 tests conducted.
On the vaccination front, he said the ACT’s vaccination rollout is continuing at a great pace.
Almost 87 per cent of the population aged 12 and up have received their first dose and 59.3 per cent of Canberrans aged 12 and up are fully vaccinated, he said.
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![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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