Public Health officials are reminding residents to pare down their New Year’s plans as the province sees another surge in cases thanks to the highly transmissible Omicron variant.
Serious illness lags behind initial case counts by a week or so, and the COVID cases being reported are linked to transmission that occurred in the days leading up to Christmas and Christmas itself.
Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Janice Fitzgerald is asking people to be mindful of their steady 20 and not to mix people who may not be part of each other’s steady 20.
Health Minister John Haggie repeated the importance of scaling back those New Year’s celebration plans.
Now is not the time for that shed party says Haggie, “your friends might want a drink with you, but they don’t need COVID too.”