Posted: Feb 08, 2021 6:17 AM NT | Last Updated: February 8
Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Janice Fitzgerald addressed the province Monday, introducing new measures to curb community spread.(Government of Newfoundland and Labrador)
Newfoundland and Labrador reported 11 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, following the closure of a high school in the St. John s metro area where two students tested positive for the virus over the weekend.
There are a significant number of contacts associated with the school cluster, officials say, and several hundred people are in isolation.
Monday s announcement comes as a setback for Newfoundland and Labrador, which has had relatively few COVID-19 infections since last spring, when the province brought in a controversial ban on incoming travel that the government credits for a consistently low COVID-19 caseload.
Newfoundland and Labrador is reporting three new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday as public health makes a call for testing for people who worked at or visited a restaurant in Mount Pearl recently.