COVID-19 kills 2 in N.L. over Thanksgiving long weekend
CBC
Newfoundland and Labrador added 21 new cases of COVID-19 over the Thanksgiving long weekend, according to a media release from the Department of Health on Tuesday.
The department also confirmed the deaths of two more people. News of one of those deaths — of 60-year-old Cyril Brenton from Botwood — surfaced over the weekend, as reported by CBC.
Thirteen people in the province have died of COVID-19 in total. Over the first year and a half of the pandemic, the province marked seven deaths, but has now had six in the past 16 days.
Eight of the new cases are in the Eastern Health region, 13 are in Central Health and one is in the Labrador-Grenfell Health region, its first since Sept. 17.
An outbreak last month in central Newfoundland has led to a spike in both hospitalizations and deaths in recent days. However, Newfoundland and Labrador's active case count has now fallen dramatically, with the department reporting 62 new recoveries since its last update, on Friday.
That leaves the province with 69 active cases, about two-thirds of them in the Central Health area.
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