Four more people have passed away due to COVID-19 over the past week in NL, raising the provinces total of deaths to 245 since the beginning of March 2020.
Of the 4 people were in their 70’s in Eastern Health region and 1 was 80 or older in Western.
Hospitalizations have dropped from 13 last week to 8 this week including 1 person in critical care, down from 2 last week.
The province also confirmed 193 new cases of COVID-19 over the past week. However, those numbers don’t accurately represent the full spread of the pandemic as the province has restricted PCR tests administered by Health Authorities, and the case numbers don’t include positive results from rapid tests people take themselves.