ACT Health has today (May 18) reported there are 74 people in Canberra hospitals with COVID-19, a steep fall from yesterday’s 80 which marked the highest the ACT has seen since the beginning of the pandemic.
Of those in hospital, four are in the intensive care unit and one is on a ventilator.
The territory recorded 1098 new cases of covid today, 556 via PCR tests and 542 via RATs. There are currently 6190 active cases in the ACT.
Vaccination numbers are staying steady, with 97.2 per cent of Canberra residents aged five and over having received two doses.
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