A man in his 40s has died with COVID-19 as a cluster of cases at a Tuggeranong school continues to grow. The man was being treated in the intensive care unit at Canberra Hospital and was the youngest person yet to die from COVID-19 related illness in the ACT. The Canberra Times understands the man was not vaccinated, however Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith and ACT Health would not confirm the man's vaccination status, citing privacy reasons. Eleven people in the ACT have died since August 12. The previous deaths were in people aged in their 60s or older. The ACT reported six new cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm Thursday, with one of these acquired overseas. Meanwhile, a cluster of cases based at Wanniassa School junior campus has risen to 31 as health authorities are investigating a new case at the Namadgi School's Boddington campus. The Wanniassa School community was first told on Sunday about a positive case that visited the junior campus last week. Since then a cluster of cases has emerged, causing the junior campus and outside of school care to close. All students, teachers and visitors to the site since Monday, October 25, were directed to get a COVID-19 test and isolate until they receive the results. Ms Stephen-Smith said ACT Health would decide over the weekend whether the junior campus would reopen on Monday as more test results were returned. "We know that we'll see household contacts becoming infected as a result of these school-based clusters," she said. "I'll certainly expect to see those [case] numbers to increase over the next few days." READ MORE: Patients connected to the Wanniassa School cluster are being treated through the COVID care at home program. A pop up COVID-19 testing and vaccination clinic was open for walk-ins at the school on Friday. "We know that sometimes an outbreak scenario can be the final motivation that people need to come forward and get vaccinated, but also that there will be some members of that school community won't necessarily be accessing mainstream health services," Ms Stephen-Smith said. A COVID-19 case at Namadgi School attended a small satellite program at the offsite Boddington campus. It's the fourth school in Tuggeranong this week to discover a COVID-19 case was on campus while unknowingly infectious. Wanniassa School senior campus, Gordon Primary School and St Anthony's Parish Primary School had positive cases on site but were able to remain open for those who were not considered close contacts. "ACT Health has been working closely with the education directorate to support schools to stay open while ensuring the spread of COVID-19 is minimised," Ms Stephen-Smith said. Queanbeyan Public School was closed for cleaning and contact tracing on Wednesday and Thursday but was reopened on Friday. The percentage of the ACT population aged 12 and over with two doses of a vaccine was at 94.4 per cent on Friday. The Health Minister said she expected this to reach 95 per cent over the weekend. As of 8pm Thursday, there were three COVID-19 patients in ACT hospitals, including one in intensive care on ventilation. New local COVID-19 cases continue to spread in regional NSW, including in aged care facilities near the border with Victoria, while travel restrictions ease between the two states. There were 249 local cases recorded on Friday with 73 in the hunter New England health district and 29 in the Murrumbidgee area, most of which were in Albury where two more people died in aged care facilities. There were 83 new cases in Sydney health districts and 21 on the state's mid-north coast. Further south there were 14 in the Illawarra Shoalhaven region and five in southern NSW. There are 285 COVID-19 cases in NSW hospitals, with 61 people in intensive care, 28 on ventilation. Our coverage of the health and safety aspects of this outbreak of COVID-19 in the ACT and the lockdown is free for anyone to access. However, we depend on subscription revenue to support our journalism. If you are able, please subscribe here. If you are already a subscriber, thank you for your support. You can also sign up for our newsletters for regular updates. Our journalists work hard to provide local, up-to-date news to the community. This is how you can continue to access our trusted content: