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The ACT Government will be hosting a COVID-19 Business Support Webinar to talk through the measures that are available now, and how to access them.

The ACT Government will be enacting directions on the temporary closure of non-essential activities and businesses to help slow the spread of COVID-19. This reflects the decision made at National Cabinet on non-essential service closures and maintains consistency with the NSW approach.  It is important that the rules are the same throughout the Canberra region.

Following similar announcements from the Premier of Victoria and the Premier of New South Wales, I will also be informing National Cabinet that the ACT will proceed to a more comprehensive shutdown of non-essential services over the next 48 hours. I expect all states and territories will do the same.

There has been one (1) new case of COVID-19 recorded in the ACT in the past 24 hours. The ACT’s total is now 97.

There have been no new cases of COVID-19 recorded in the ACT in the past 24 hours

In the ACT, there have been three (3) new confirmed cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, bringing the ACT’s total to 96.

ACT Chief Health Officer, Dr Kerryn Coleman, is today advising the Canberra community of the ACT’s second death from COVID-19.

The ACT Minister for Education and Early Childhood announced that from Tuesday 24 March 2020 all ACT Public Schools will go pupil free until the school holidays, due to begin on Friday 10 April 2020.

ACT schools, government and non-government, will begin pupil-free days from Tuesday 24 March through to the school holidays despite statements from the Prime Minister.

A case of COVID-19 has been identified in the ACT as connected to Lyneham High School.

On 15 March 2020, the Australian Government announced that all organised, non-essential mass gatherings attended by more than 500 people must be cancelled from Monday 16 March.

Six new flight details have been added to the confirmed case and known flights with confirmed cases page.

On 15 March 2020, the National Cabinet met, and based on advice of the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC), agreed that the core objective is to slow the outbreak of COVID-19 in Australia by taking steps to reduce community transmission.

The ACT Health Directorate has been notified by the NSW Government that an Australian Defence Force person with COVID-19 may have been infectious when the person travelled on two flights between Sydney and Canberra on February 28.

The ACT Government is advising that anyone who has been to Hubei Province in China will need to stay at home for 14 days after leaving Hubei.

The ACT Government will build a temporary COVID-19 Emergency Department as part of our response to the pandemic.

The ACT Government is implementing further changes to our health services to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in our community.

The ACT Government is implementing changes to maternity, paediatric and community-based services to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in our community.

The ACT Government is implementing further changes to our health services to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in our community.

The ACT Government will delay the rollout of the Network 19 update that was due to be implemented at the start of Term 2, and begin a range of measures to ensure the safety of staff and the community.

ACT Health is working to identify a number of close contacts who travelled on public transport with one of the previous confirmed cases.

Commencing this week, Transport Canberra is increasing its cleaning regime on buses and light rail vehicles as well as high traffic areas such as bus stops and interchanges.