Tasmania could reopen itself up to at least one repatriation flight as the crisis in Afghanistan unfolds.
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Premier Peter Gutwein said the worsening situation in the troubled country would be a focus of a national cabinet meeting on Friday afternoon.
It follows the suicide bombing at Kabul airport that killed at least 60 people.
Mr Gutwein said Tasmania would either agree to accept a flight carrying refugees into the state to be sent to quarantine or a repatriation flight from another international destination.
However, he said there was a high chance either of these flights would be carrying a COVID-positive passenger.
"If we take Afghan refugees, if we take a repat flight, the chance of having COVID on either of those flights would be very high," Mr Gutwein said.
He said the government was looking to double our hotel quarantine so that more Tasmanians could come home.
Mr Gutwein said lockdowns may not be necessary in Tasmania should the Delta variant emerge if an 80-per-cent vaccination target was reached.
At Friday's coronavirus update, Health Department secretary Kathrine Morgan-wicks said more than 250,000 Tasmanians had received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
She said more than 172,000 Tasmanians were fully vaccinated.
Ms Morgan-Wicks said almost 425,000 doses of the vaccine had been administered in the state.
She said 16,500 Tasmanians had booked their first jab in the past two weeks.
Ms Morgan-Wicks said vaccinations were planned to be rolled out to Tasmanians aged between 12 and 15 years old next month.
She said bookings would open in September and clinics would accept people from this age group the following month.
About 700 doses of COVID-19 vaccines had been administered to college students, Ms Morgan-Wicks said.
She said the state was on target to have 63 per cent of the population fully vaccinated close to the end of September.