HALIFAX Health officials on Prince Edward Island are reporting no new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday. P.E.I. currently has 28 active cases of COVID-19, the highest number of active infections the province has had, to date. The province has had 143 cumulative cases of the novel coronavirus. For the first time in the last year, there are actually more active cases in P.E.I. than in Nova Scotia, said Dr. Heather Morrison, P.E.I. s chief public health officer. I do remain concerned about our current COVID-19 situation. Morrison says provincial labs have received results of genetic sequencing for P.E.I. s recent COVID-19 cases.
HALIFAX Prince Edward Island will move out of its 72-hour lockdown as of midnight Thursday, and into a modified circuit breaker, public health officials announced Wednesday. Beginning midnight Thursday, P.E.I. will enter a 10-day modified circuit breaker which will last until 8 a.m. on March 14. “As I’ve said before there is no playbook for dealing with COVID-19,” said P.E.I. chief public health officer Dr. Heather Morrison during a news update on Wednesday. “Based on our own experience and that of our colleagues in Atlantic Canada, the importance of going fast and hard is the most effective approach. I would rather be here to explain why we acted quickly to protect the health of Islanders as opposed to why we did not act fast enough, or do enough.”