There are no new cases of COVID-19 in the Newfoundland and Labrador today.

This marks five consecutive days without any new cases in the province. Two people have recovered, bringing the number of active cases to nine.

A total of 49,502 people have been tested.

There have been 287 cases in NL and four people have died from the pathogen.

CMOH Clarifies Recovery Criteria

Meanwhile, the province’s Chief Medical Officer of Health says you do not necessarily have to get a second COVID-19 test to be declared recovered from the virus.

During today’s provincial COVID-19 update, Dr. Janice Fitzgerald explained that the public health definition of “recovered” means it has been at least 10 days from the onset of symptoms and all your symptoms have resolved. If this is the case, she says, you don’t need a second test to confirm you are COVID free.

She says at the beginning of the pandemic they did require that second test, but they haven’t required that for “quite some time,” which she says is the standard across the country.