There are now four people in hospital in Canberra, including one person in intensive care on a ventilator, because of COVID.

For the second time in a week, ACT Health is making a change to the way it presents information to the public on how many patients are in hospital because of COVID.

Hospitalisation reporting now includes people cleared of their coronavirus infection who remain in hospital after their release from isolation.

ACT Health said the change aligned ACT reporting with reporting in other jurisdictions, as set out by the federal Health Department and agreed to by the national cabinet.

This comes after it advised last week it had changed the wording of its reporting to make it clear patients were only included in the reported hospitalisation figures if they were an "active" case. Health authorities said at the time this was in line with other jurisdictions.

Meanwhile, the territory's vaccination rate has reached 96.5 per cent of residents aged 12 and over.

Daily testing remains under 2000 a day, with 1470 negative tests in the 24-hour reporting period after a weekend of relaxed restrictions across the territory.

NSW recorded 212 new COVID-19 cases and two deaths in the 24 hours to 8pm.

The cases are an increase on the past two days which were both below 200 with 165 recorded yesterday and 195 the day prior.

Victoria has recorded 797 new COVID cases and eight deaths in the 24 hours to midnight.

The state's population aged over 12 years is 87 per cent fully vaccinated, while 7191 vaccine doses were administered at state run clinics yesterday.

Meanwhile, the Victorian government has made several changes to its pandemic legislation to address legal and human rights concerns, ahead of debate in state parliament's upper house.

The government has made seven amendments to the Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment (Pandemic Management) Bill 2021 following negotiations with key crossbench MPs.

Northern Territory health officials are trying to get on top of a possible COVID-19 outbreak as the communities of Greater Katherine and Robinson River entered a 72-hour lockdown.

Chief Minister Michael Gunner announced the lockdown on Monday after two people tested positive since spending time at the Robinson River remote community.

One of the two new positive cases, a 30-year-old Aboriginal woman, lives in Robinson River about 800 kilometres from Katherine.

The woman's case is the first COVID-19 infection reported in a remote Aboriginal community.

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