Today Wednesday, January 19, Newfoundland and Labrador has 511 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the last update on January 18. Anyone who has tested positive must follow guidelines.
There are 18 people in hospital because of COVID-19, 14 in non-critical care and four in critical care.
There have been 471 new recoveries – 397 in the Eastern Health region, 20 in the Central Health region, 25 in the Western Health region, 26 in the Labrador-Grenfell region and three unknown RHA, and 10,594 people have recovered.
The breakdown of the 511 cases are as follows:
• Eastern Health region – 344
• Central Health region – 68
• Western Health region – 73
• Labrador-Grenfell Health region – 24
• Unknown RHA – 2
There are currently 3,205 active cases of COVID-19 in the province; the regional breakdown of the active cases are as follows:
• Eastern Health – 2,376
• Central Health – 258
• Labrador-Grenfell Health – 189
• Western Health – 324
• Unknown RHA – 58
A total of 2,449 tests were completed since yesterday; to date, 461,082 tests have been administered.