Daily COVID-19 case numbers are rising again in Tasmania, with the health department confirming the state is in the middle of another wave.
As of Wednesday, southern Tasmanians were being asked to reconsider their need to go to the Royal Hobart Hospital as it escalated its COVID management plan to level two in the wake of a COVID outbreak.
Health department secretary Kathrine Morgan-Wicks said the hospital was seeing an increasing number of COVID patients, as well as more COVID-related staff absences.