The Chief Medical Officer of Health is crediting the collective efforts of NL for “tackling” the provinces 2nd COVID outbreak.
There were three new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the province yesterday, all in the Eastern Health Region, and all are contacts from previous cases.
There are 84 active cases in the province and including three who are in the hospital.
All the recent confirmed 3 cases are in the Eastern Health region have either been linked to previous cases or have been travel related.
That’s very different from the rapid and worrisome community spread identified a month ago.
The Avalon Peninsula remains under Alert Level 5, Public Health’s highest level of COVID – related levels.
That will be assessed on Friday of this week, but Dr. Fitzgerald doesn’t anticipate that the province will not be skipping levels.
The approach needs to be slow, to prevent the kind of intense resurgence seen last months, she says.