Today Tuesday, January 18, Newfoundland and Labrador has 295 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the last update yesterday.
There are 14 people in hospital because of COVID-19, 11 in non-critical care and three in critical care.
There have been 2,453 new recoveries – 1,878 in the Eastern Health region, 78 in the Central Health region, 113 in the Western Health region, 310 in the Labrador-Grenfell region and 74 unknown RHA, and 10,123 people have recovered.
Anyone who has tested positive must follow guidelines. Cases are advised to notify contacts as per instructions on the website.
The breakdown of the 295 cases is as follows:
• Eastern Health region – 160
• Central Health region – 49
• Western Health region – 60
• Labrador-Grenfell Health region – 17
• Unknown RHA – 9
There are currently 3,166 active cases of COVID-19 in the province. The regional breakdown of the active cases is as follows:
• Eastern Health – 2,415
• Central Health – 213
• Labrador-Grenfell Health – 191
• Western Health – 279
• Unknown RHA – 68
A total of 1,426 tests were completed since yesterday. To date, 458,633 tests have been administered.