The provincial government’s latest numbers, released today at noon, showing 11 people in hospital, including 4 in critical care, and 6 people have died in the last week, raising the province’s total deaths to 285 since the pandemic began in March 2020.
Hospitalizations have fallen since last week, when 15 people were in hospital, with 5 in critical care.
The province has also recorded 142 new cases of COVID-19 since last week’s update, but the numbers don’t reflect the true prevalence of the disease, since it records only positive PCR tests done by provincial health authorities, and doesn’t include rapid tests done by the public on their own.
Last Thursday marked the 1,000th day of the pandemic in Newfoundland and Labrador, which registered its first presumptive positive case of COVID-19 on March 14, 2020.