Premier Jeremy Rockliff on Wednesday announced that as the state moved towards the end of the public health emergency period on June 30, the government would gradually remove some remaining COVID-19 restrictions.

He said people would no longer be required to wear masks in Tasmanian airports on Friday at midnight, however, would still need to do so on planes, in line with the national approach.

Mr Rockliff said people would no longer have to wear face masks on public transport from Friday, June 24, or on the Spirit of Tasmania.

"It will also no longer be a requirement to wear masks in schools or early childhood education and care settings," he said.

He said the requirement to wear masks in other settings such as hospitals, aged care facilities, by disability providers and in correctional facilities would be based on a risk assessment for each setting after the expiry of the public health declaration.

"It may also be that some individual organisations and businesses, based on their own workplace risk assessments, may continue to require masks to be worn to protect people who are more vulnerable to respiratory illnesses, like COVID and indeed the flu," Mr Rockliff said.

He said close contacts of positive cases would still be required after June 30 to where face masks in indoor settings when outside their home.

Public Health director Mark Veitch said while the public health emergency declaration will be over on June 30, the department would not treat matters as if COVID was over.

"We are still seeing around about 500 cases of COVID a day in Tasmania, which is probably around about as many cases as you see at the peak of influenza season," he said.

"It's still causing hospitalisations, and unfortunately, it's still causing occasional deaths.

"I think the COVID risk to the community, from a public health perspective and to some extent from a healthcare perspective, is going to continue for some months.

"But we have capabilities that were built up over the last year or two that we will continue to use."

Mr Rockliff said national protocols had been developed to preventing and manage COVID-19 risk when cruise ships returned to Tasmania in October.

He said isolation of cases and close contacts requirement would apply to cruise ships in Tasmania waters as they did on land.

Small domestic cruises with fewer than 100 passengers have been permitted to operate in Tasmania waters since December 15.