There are seven people hospitalised with the virus, four of whom are in intensive care and requiring ventilation.

The new cases follow the announcement of two deaths on Monday, after a man in his 60s and a woman in her 70s died with COVID-19 on Sunday.

Both had been receiving treatment in intensive care and neither were vaccinated.

ACT Health said there had been little change in the epidemiological overview of the outbreak in the past seven days.

"Weekly cases continued to decline, with 61 cases last week, for a total of 1656 for the entire outbreak (to 8pm Sunday October 31)," it said in a statement.

"The five-day rolling average of daily cases (by diagnosis date) reached a peak of just over 40 on October 1. This has continued to decrease since then and is now under 5."

It said about 90 per cent of total cases had not been considered fully vaccinated. Only 10 per cent of cases had been fully vaccinated at the time of testing positive.

"Additionally, 96 per cent of our hospitalised cases have not been fully vaccinated," it said.

There have been 10 deaths during this outbreak in the ACT, which began on August 12.

The new cases bring the active total to 153, while the number of cases associated with this outbreak now stands at 1664.

Meantime, the percentage of the eligible population who are now fully vaccinated has reached 93.2 per cent.

NSW has recorded 173 new COVID-19 cases and four deaths in the 24 hours to 8pm.

Across the state 93.6 per cent of the population aged over 16 years have been vaccinated with their first dose, while 87.8 per cent are fully vaccinated.

There are 333 COVID-19 patients in hospital with 72 in ICU.

NSW is also fast-tracking its roadmap to reopening, with the restrictions meant to lift on December 1 now due to lift on November 8.

However unvaccinated residents will not be party to the new freedoms.

In fact restrictions for unvaccinated residents that were due to lift on December 1 have been pushed back to December 15 or when the state hits 95 per cent vaccination.

From November 8, fully vaccinated residents will be allowed unlimited visitors to their home.

For the first time in over a month, Victoria has recorded fewer than 1000 cases of coronavirus.

The state recorded 989 new cases along with nine more deaths overnight.

It is the lowest daily case number since September 28 when Victoria recorded 938 cases. Victoria's active cases are now at 19,409.

There were five new cases of the virus recorded in the territory on Monday, and while numbers have continued to trend downwards Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith said the possibility of COVID zero was incredibly low.

"We do continue to expect that we will start to see an increase in cases as we open up both our local restrictions and of course travel is reopening today across the region in NSW and Victoria," she said.

"Of course we know that even people who are fully vaccinated can acquire the virus and can transmit if to others.

"So although vaccination reduces the risk of transmission what it really does is reduce the risk of severe disease and hospitalisations."

Meantime, chief health officer Dr Kerryn Coleman said the government will look at how it can adapt its risk assessment in schools after exposures sent up to 70 people into quarantine at two schools.

"Unfortunately, that has resulted in still quite a high number of children and teachers needing to stay at home for the full 14 day quarantine period, because the majority of them aren't vaccinated at this point in time," she said.

"So that's about 60 or 70 at each school, I think that's too high at this stage, and we will work very hard on what we can do to adapt our risk assessment moving forward."

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