N.L. reports 16th COVID-19 death, 20 new cases since Monday
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Newfoundland and Labrador is reporting its 16th death due to COVID-19 on Wednesday, a man from the Central Health region who was 70 years old or older.
The Department of Health also announced 20 new cases since the last full update, on Monday. Eleven of those cases — attached to a cluster in the Marystown area — were reported by Dr. Jennifer Lemessurier, medical officer of health for Eastern Health, on Tuesday.
Contact tracing by Public Health is underway, said the Health Department, and close contacts have been advised of quarantine regulations.
The new cases, by age, in the Eastern Health region:
All are contacts of previous cases, said the department.
There are also three in the Central Health region, one a contact of a previous case and two under investigation, and one new case in the Western Health region who is also a contact of a previous case.
The Health Department also announced nine new recoveries, five of which are in the Eastern Health region, three in the Central Health region and one in the Western Health region.
There's one presumptive positive case and one person is hospital. The department says the active caseload is now 101, but the numbers released Wednesday don't completely add up with Monday's totals. On Monday the department said the caseload was 90. Adding 20 new cases, with nine recoveries and one death, would leave 100 cases. CBC has asked the department for clarification.
The investigation into the Marystown cluster is ongoing. The cluster now has 74 cases of COVID-19, up five since Tuesday.
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