The provincial government is implementing more restrictions on provincial ferry crossings and who can travel on them, to help fight the spread of COVID-19.

Passengers are required to inform the ferry services if they have recently returned from travel outside the province.

Effective this morning, the new restrictions are now limiting passengers to:

essential workers travelling to their workplace;

patients travelling for medical reasons including doctors appointments and pharmacy visits;

those travelling for essential goods and supplies like groceries, that are not available in their home community;

and those transporting essential goods.

Further, in an effort to limit the interactions between passengers and crew and to allow time to clean the vessels, the number of trips for each ferry will be reduced.

The number of passengers allowed to travel on the Kamutik W, between Corner Brook and Blanc Sablon, has been reduced to 53 per trip.