The ACT has recorded 28 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases.
There are 21 people in hospital with the virus, including 10 people in intensive care — eight of whom require ventilation.
More than 83 per cent of the eligible population aged 12 years and over have now been fully vaccinated.
The ACT government today said they're not currently considering mandating vaccines for inmates and staff at the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC), despite the facility being a high-risk setting.
The announcement came after the government introduced mandatory vaccination requirements for primary school teachers and early childhood educators, as well as disability support workers and in-home and community aged care staff.
The next easing of restrictions will begin at 11:59 pm tonight, with non-essential retail able to reopen under a 1 person per 4 square metres rule.
No mandates for inmates, staff
ACT Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith said health authorities were not considering a vaccine mandate for staff and detainees at Canberra's jail "at this point in time".
"We acknowledge in the ACT public service that the AMC is an example of a high risk setting, if we were going to consider such a measure," Ms Stephen-Smith said.
"And what we have seen in the AMC is a number of detainees being positive, a staff member who was positive at work, and those things were managed very closely and we haven't seen the spread of COVID-19 in the prison."
Ms Stephen-Smith said information on vaccination was available for both staff and detainees.
"Any consideration of [a mandate] will be done in very close consultation which staff and I know the corrections commissioner has been having conversations with staff about the importance of vaccinations and why it will protect them and the wider community," she said.
