There are two new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the province today.
Both are in the Eastern Health region, one is related to domestic travel while the other is related to international travel. Contact tracing is underway.
Two people are now in hospital with the virus.
There have been two new recoveries leaving 27 active cases—13 in the Eastern Health region, three in Central Health, and 11 in Western Health.
Passengers who traveled on Air Canada Flight 2016 from Montreal to St. John’s on Wednesday, April 28, are being asked to arrange for COVID testing.
Yesterday Public Health officials confirmed that 83 per cent of the samples lab-tested in April are related to variants of concern.
Nine were the B117 variant, five were the B1351 first identified in South Africa, one was the P1 variant first identified in Brazil and one was the B1617 variant of interest identified in India.
