The ACT has recorded 599 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday alongside a sharp increase in the hospitalisation rate from 29 to 38 on Monday.

Three people are in intensive care, up from one the previous reporting period, but none require ventilation.

No new deaths have been reported.

Almost 94 per cent of the population aged five and over have been double jabbed and the boosted rate for those 16-plus has surpassed 70 per cent in the territory.

Four in five children aged five to 11 have had at least one dose.

– AAP