A second person has been admitted to an intensive care unit as active COVID cases in Tasmania increased in the past 24 hours.
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New cases in the state rose to 1310 from 1037, while the total number of active cases also rose by 52 to 6417.
Hospital cases have also increased by four to 25, with the Department of Health confirming 12 patients were being treated for COVID, while the remaining 13 cases were in hospital for unrelated medical conditions.
Patients under observation in intensive care rose by one as a second person was admitted since Monday.
Tasmania's state health commander Kathrine Morgan-Wicks said both patients in their seventies were currently under observation in intensive care with one patient on a ventilator.
She said one of the patients was in a not stable condition while the other was in a stable condition.
Director of Public Health Mark Veitch said over half of all hospitalisations were aged seventy and above, with 7 patients in their seventies and 6 in their eighties under observation.
Dr Veitch said only one patient in hospital was under 10, with no patients aged between 10 to 19.
The number of people under observation in the state's three community case management facilities also rose by three to 40, as people in the COVID@home program increased from 372 to 387.
The number of people released from isolation was recorded as 1258, slightly less than on Monday, although the total number of people released rose to 13,672.
More information is available at coronavirus.tas.gov.au.
Andrew Chounding is The Examiner's Health Reporter, if you have a health-related story please email Andrew.chounding@examiner.com.au
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