It was a sad day yesterday, with 3 people who died from the province-all in Central region bringing the total number to 34.
20 people are in the hospital and there are a total of 304 new cases. There are 308 who recovered and that brings the total number to 2,860.
With 240 recovered in the Eastern, 36 Central and 23 in the Western region.
The provincial Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Janice Fitzgerald outlined the delicate and constant balance Health Clinic is trying to achieve in dealing with the fast spread of Omicron variant.
The virus is not as virulent as previous COVID variants of concern, leading to questions of the province remaining under Alert Level 4 even as people are being informed to live with COVID.
Dr. Fitzgerald says she knows some parents have concern with this decision, adding they’re trying to prevent is symptomatic student from being caught in repeated cycles of isolation something that she says take a different kind of toll.
She cautioned yet again not to assume that just because students are back in the school that this is time to return to normal activity everywhere.