The ACT has recorded seven new cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night, with three people in hospital.

Of the three hospital patients with active or clears coronavirus cases, one is in intensive care but not requiring ventilation.

The active COVID cases in the ACT stands at 61 with the total cases of the Canberra outbreak now 2,086.

There were 2,194 negative tests returned in the past 24 hours.

The vaccination rate remains at 98.3 per cent for the 12 plus population.

NSW cases rise, hospitalisations steady

Meanwhile, COVID-19 cases in NSW continue to skyrocket with 1,360 new cases recorded as unvaccinated people enjoy extra freedoms from today.

The daily tally of COVID-19 infections in NSW has jumped by more than 500, as the state braces for further surges with unvaccinated people now free to shop and socialise in NSW.

Some 1360 new cases were detected in the 24 hours to 8pm on Tuesday, an increase of 556 on the 804 recorded the previous day.

A total of 110 cases the Omicron variant of concern have been confirmed, NSW Health says.

Infections have more than quadrupled in a week, and it is the first time in months the state has recorded more than a thousand new cases in a single day.

The last time the tally higher was on September 11, when 1599 new cases were detected.

But the number of hospitalisations and deaths in NSW are a fraction of what they were then.

There was one COVID-19 death on Tuesday – a fully vaccinated woman in her 90s who caught her infection at an aged care facility in southwest Sydney.

Meanwhile, 166 people are in hospital with the virus, with 24 of them in intensive care and seven requiring a ventilator to breathe.

That compares with eight deaths reported on September 11, when 1164 people were in hospital with COVID-19.

More than 220 of them were in intensive care and 94 were ventilated.

Victoria’s coronavirus numbers also increased with 1,405 new infections.

With AAP

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