The ACT is edging closer to 70 per cent triple vaxxed, the latest health data has revealed.
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.
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.
