Newfoundland and Labrador officially joins an Atlantic bubble today, meaning that residents not experiencing symptoms can move freely between all four Atlantic Provinces without having to self-isolate.
Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Janice Fitzgerald, says the overall incidence of COVID-19 in the region is very low, and that it is unrealistic to expect the province to remain closed.
Nova Scotia reported another new case in that province yesterday – an individual who arrived as a temporary foreign worker who has been in self-isolation since arriving in Nova Scotia.
The province says all three new cases reported in Nova Scotia over the last week are linked to travel outside the country.
Newfoundland and Labrador has not seen any active cases in about two weeks and no new cases in over a month.