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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Lanie Tindale

As it happened: 26 cases linked to school cluster

A cluster linked to a Wanniassa school has grown to 26 cases on Thursday, nine more than Wednesday.

The Wanniassa School junior campus is closed for the rest of the week and a pop up testing centre is open in the school hall today.

St Anthony's Parish Primary School in Wanniassa, Gordon Primary School and Wanniassa School senior campus have all had a positive case of COVID-19 attend campuses in recent days.

The territory on Thursday recorded 13 new cases of the virus, with six people hospitalised.

Fully vaccinated Canberrans have faced 14-day quarantines after returning from Victoria and NSW, due to a caveat on new travel rules.

The travel restrictions, which came into effect on Monday, allow fully vaccinated travellers to avoid quarantines in the ACT even if they have visited high-risk locations.

But they must have had had their second dose two weeks before travel.

Some Canberra pharmacists say they will be forced to scale down their rollouts of COVID-19 booster doses due to inadequate federal funding.

Capital Chemist Charnwood managing partner Samantha Kourtis said they would provide boosters to vulnerable people, but would have to direct others elsewhere.

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A nurse takes a COVID-19 swab at the EPIC testing site earlier this year. Picture: Keegan Carroll
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