By CBC News
Posted: Jan 03, 2022
Province hasĀ set daily new case records for past week
Newfoundland and Labrador will be moving to a modified Alert Level 4 to deal with record COVID-19 numbers to begin 2022, the provincial government announced Monday.
The province reported 519 new cases ā for the seventh straight day, a new single-day record āĀ andĀ its 20th death related to COVID-19, a woman in her 50s in the Central Health region. The active caseload is 2,925, also a new record.
As cases of the highly transmissible Omicron variant continue to spread, Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Janice Fitzgerald said she believes it’s inevitable that most people in theĀ province will catch COVID-19 at some point.
