Yukon officials give update on COVID-19
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Yukon health officials will give an update on COVID-19 in the territory on Wednesday morning.
Premier Sandy Silver and acting Chief Medical Officer Dr. Catherine Elliott will hold a news conference at 10:30 a.m. It will be streamed live here and on CBC Yukon's Facebook page.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the government was reporting 43 confirmed active cases of COVID-19 with four of them new. The test positivity rate for lab-based PCR testing was 29.6 per cent.
The government's official count does not include all positive cases, as Yukoners who test at home are not all required to report their results.
Also on Tuesday, health officials reported the territory's 21st death from COVID-19 since the pandemic began.
Yukon Hospitals reported that space was available at all the territory's hospitals as of Tuesday morning, though space was "limited" in the Whitehorse intensive care unit.
Meantime, Yukon is set to ease more public health restrictions later this week.
As of Friday, there will be no more capacity limits or size limits for gatherings, and bars and restaurants will be able to resume normal service without six-foot spacing between tables. Dancing and mingling between tables will also be allowed again.
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