Four more people have died from COVID-19 in Newfoundland and Labrador, according to the Department of Health’s weekly update on Wednesday.
Two of the deaths occurred in the Eastern Health Region, one in the Central Health Region and one in the Labrador-Grenfell Health Region. One person was in their 40s, one was in their 60s, one was in their 70s, and one was in their 80s or older.
According to the department, 16 people are hospitalized, compared to 17 last week, with two of them in critical care, less than one, due to the disease.
Six people are hospitalized in the Eastern Health Region, seven in the Central Health Region and three in hospital in the Western Health Region. No one is in hospital due to COVID-19 in the Labrador-Grenfell Health Region.
The province reports 295 new confirmed cases, although the official case numbers do not represent the true spread of COVID-19 in Newfoundland and Labrador because PCR testing has limited eligibility requirements and the daily case count only includes those positives found by the tests carried out by the health authorities. , not positive cases found by residents doing their own rapid tests.
Wednesday’s update comes two days after children six months to five years old became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccination in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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