A WOMAN in her 50s with COVID-19 has died at Canberra Hospital as the ACT recorded 1601 new cases of the virus today (January 17).
This follows the reported deaths of two men – one in his 50s, the other in his 90s – from covid in the ACT yesterday. The territory’s total death toll from the virus stands at 19.
ACT Health also reports there are 52 people in hospital with covid, an increase of 11 over yesterday. Four of today’s cases are in intensive care and two on ventilators.
Of the new daily cases cases, 878 tested positive to a PCR test and 723 tested positive to a rapid antigen test. ACT Health is managing 3205 active cases, with 23,761 total cases since March 12.
There are now 30.5 per cent of ACT residents aged 18 and over who have received their booster vaccine and 26.8 per cent of children aged five to 11 in the territory have now received one dose.
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