Newfoundland and Labrador’s COVID-19 situation has calmed significantly since the winter Omicron surge, and the province’s Chief Medical Officer of Health says there currently isn’t anything on the horizon that could throw a wrench into the situation.

The province lifted most COVID restrictions and ended the public health emergency in March, and since then daily case counts and hospitalizations have remained manageable.

Dr. Janice Fitzgerald says right now they are seeing a “reduced level of transmission” as more people have become immune through a combination of vaccination and infection. As well, as the weather has gotten warmer Fitzgerald more people are going outside, which has contributed to what she calls a “very manageable level” of COVID.

Public health is preparing for potential surges in the fall, but Fitzgerald says as of right now there are no known complications either nationally or internationally that people need to be wary of.

She says it appears that “Omicron has taken over the world.” She notes that they are watching sub-lineages of Omicron that are more transmissible, but measures that worked to protect against the original strain of Omicron will work against those.