Canada is expected to spend a whopping $308-billion on health care this year, with Newfoundland and Labrador accounting for $5-billion of that.
Newfoundland and Labrador will spend about $213-million this year on COVID-related measures, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, or CIHI.
Ann Chapman, director of spending and primary care with CIHI, says health care represents about 40 per cent of all program spending by provincial and territorial governments.
Newfoundland and Labrador is projected by CIHI to spend just shy of $9600 on health care per person.
Amounts across Canada range from a low of $7000 per capita to $23,000.