With 40 COVID-19 hospitalizations, N.L. hits another record high
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Forty people are in hospital due to COVID-19 in Newfoundland and Labrador, another record high for the province.
The previous record was 33, set Friday. Seven people are in critical care. Earlier this month, when 20 people were hospitalized, Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Janice Fitzgerald said the province's health-care system could handle double or triple that load.
"Certainly it's difficult to put a number on it because sometimes it depends on the level of care that's needed as well, but I think our system certainly would be able to manage between 40 and 60 cases," she said March 9, as the province was preparing to drop almost all public health restrictions related to the pandemic.
Officials have said the province's health-care capacity for COVID-19 hospitalizations is around 60 people.
The Health Department is also reporting two more deaths, raising the total since March 2020 to 103, including 37 deaths in March alone.
Both deaths were in central Newfoundland. One person was in their 70s and the other was over 80.
The department also reported 1,157 new cases since Friday: 370 on Saturday, 539 on Sunday and 248 on Monday.
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