The public has been urged to take "personal responsibility" for mitigating the spread of COVID-19 as cases in the state continue to rise.
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Tasmania recorded 1700 new cases on Wednesday for a total of 8201 active cases across the state.
The rise in cases also saw a record high of 79 people with the virus under care in the state's hospitals, while a Northern man in his 90s died.
Despite the rise in cases, increased hospital pressure and a third death in two days, the government has talked down reintroducing COVID-19 mask and social distancing mandates.
Speaking on Wednesday, Premier Jeremy Rockliff pointed to Tasmania's high vaccination rate and an increasingly individual approach as part of the plan to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
"We are a highly-vaccinated state and nation which continues to provide a level of protection against these strains," he said.
"However, it is important to take personal responsibility and continue to exercise COVID-safe behaviours.
Mr Rockliff's comments follow a steep rise in national COVID cases, expected to peak in Tasmania in August and September.
He said with the BA.4 and BA.5 variants present at the same time as high levels of influenza, masks - while not mandated - should be worn.
"In the current circumstance with rising case numbers, I would strongly recommend the wearing of masks in indoor public spaces," he said.
Despite the Premier's comments, Director of Public Health Dr Mark Veitch said masks alone would not stop the spread of the latest wave, which while less deadly, was still highly contagious.
"I think if you want to manage COVID, masks alone are not likely to be effective at a population level given the highly transmissible strains that we are seeing," he said.
"We've turned our minds during the course of the pandemic to what is appropriate at the appropriate time."
Australian Medical Association Tasmanian President Dr John Saul said, masks, while not a perfect solution, would still offer some protection, and urged high-risk groups to continue wearing the PPE.
"It's about understanding the individual risk and taking a commonsense approach," he said.
He said with cases expected to remain high for the remainder of the winter months, older people and those with pre-existing conditions and complex chronic illnesses should consider wearing masks.
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With the winding back of public health mandates, and the COVID-19 public health emergency directive ending on June 30, Dr Veitch was asked what it would take to reintroduce COVID protocols.
"If we were to see an emerging threat, widely to the population, with for example a strain of COVID that was much more virulent, of course, we would look to what sort of measures need to be put in place to address that," he said.
With the latest wave of cases expected to peak in the coming months, some states, including South Australia have completed modelling that shows daily numbers could reach 6000 at the height of the wave.
While reluctant to predict what the peak would look like in Tasmania, Dr Veitch said the BA.2 wave which reached about 3000 daily cases was the closest comparison to what the state could experience.
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