Eastern Health to Update on Internet Outage

The Minister of Health and the President and CEO of Eastern Health will today provide an update on the internet outage that has disrupted service across multiple health authorities early this morning at 5:56 am.

Minister of Health, John Haggie and David Diamond will speak to media at 11am.

The Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health information is assessing the matter and is working with Bell Aliant.

Affected services include the Provinces COVID-19 Travel Form and Assessment and Referral form and the COVID-19 Out-of–Province proof of vaccination and the COVID-19 Results Portal.

There is still no word on what is causing the outage, but the department says that further information will be released once it become available.