Canberra's COVID-19 outbreak grows to 10
Canberra's coronavirus outbreak has grown to 10, with another high school student testing positive.
Case numbers are expected to increase as Lyneham High School in the city's inner north joins the ACT's list of exposure sites.
A student attended the school between Monday and Thursday last week before testing positive, taking the territory's case numbers to 10.
ACT Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith warned people to expect additional cases to be announced later on Monday.
"We're likely to see new cases. We've had a lot of testing being done," she told ABC radio.
Staff and students who attended the high school between Monday and Thursday last week, as well as their households, must quarantine for 14 days.
The ACT's list of exposure sites numbers more than 70.
It includes Gold Creek School, Holy Spirit Catholic Primary School and the rehearsal room of University of Canberra High School Kaleen.
ACT authorities are racing to control the spread of COVID-19 as the territory's lockdown is due to expire on Thursday evening.
Ms Stephen-Smith said case numbers over the next few days would determine whether the lockdown was extended.
"We have got thousands and thousands of contacts identified, and so I think this is a very serious situation," she said.
A man in his 20s, with no obvious links to other cases, was one of two new cases reported on Sunday.
The other was linked to a nightclub in the city.
The ACT is expected to soon receive an additional 14,000 Pfizer doses.
So far, 30.3 per cent of ACT residents aged over 16 are fully vaccinated with 54 per cent having received one dose.
