State records highest ever daily Covid-19 cases, with just 26 infections
Tasmania recorded its highest ever daily Covid-19 cases on Thursday.
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Tasmania has set a new record of its highest ever daily Covid-19 cases since the pandemic began.
The island state reported 26 new infections on Thursday, bringing the total number of active cases to 52.
Currently, only one positive case has been hospitalised but they were not admitted for Covid-19 related symptoms.
Of the new infections, 13 were male and 13 were female and they were all aged between their late teens to their 80s.
Despite 90.87 per cent of residents aged 12 and over being fully vaccinated and 96.17 per cent having at least one dose, Premier Peter Gutwein again encouraged the remaining residents to book in their jab.
“If you’re feeling unwell, isolate and get a test. Don't turn up to your end of year booze up,” he said.
“If you’re unwell and you know you’re going to in a family setting where there are vulnerable people, isolate and get tested. Use your common sense.”
Director of Public Health Mark Veitch said authorities knew the source of all the new infections.
But he warned locals there were be cases were a link was unknown.
More than half of Thursday’s cases acquired their infections from NSW while others got theirs from South Australia, Queensland and Victoria.
There were also a number of cases that were household contacts or close contacts of a previously known case in quarantine.
“I’ll be quite sure that within the coming days we will start to see occasional cases of people who have been infected in Tasmania,” Dr Veitch said.
“Now is not the time to ignore a sniffle.”
Tasmania reopened its borders to all jurisdictions on December 15.
Originally published as State records highest ever daily Covid-19 cases, with just 26 infections
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