The Department of Health and Community Services is reminding the public of the travel rules in place and self-isolation requirements following an increase in cross-border travel between Labrador and Quebec during the holiday season.

Government says communities along the Labrador-Quebec border, including the Labrador City-Wabush-Fermont area and the Labrador Straits-Quebec Lower North Shore area, have a high level of social and economic integration.

Asymptomatic people, who are permanent residents of one of these two areas and who cross the Labrador-Quebec border, are exempt from the requirement to self-isolate for 14 days when arriving in Newfoundland and Labrador from Quebec.

However, there are a number of conditions.

Individuals who are residents of Lab City or Wabush are exempt from self-isolation if they do not travel beyond Fermont or the Mount Wright Mining Complex turn-off at Rue 389.

Residents of Fermont are exempt if they do not travel beyond Lab City or Wabush.

Those who are residents of the Labrador Straits are exempt from isolation if they do not travel beyond the community boundary of Old Fort along the Quebec Lower North Shore and the same vice-versa.

People from elsewhere in Labrador are not exempt from the requirement to self-isolate if they travel across the Quebec border upon their return to Labrador.

Lastly, those from the island portion of the province who travel from St. Barbe to Blanc-Sablon, on their way to Labrador, are asked not to stop while in Quebec, but instead travel straight to Labrador when getting off the ferry.