The Chief Medical Officer of Health is easing more public health restrictions related to COVID-19. Dr. Janice Fitzgerald made the announcement yesterday.
She is lifting special measures orders preventing personnel care home workers from moving from one facility to another and working in other facilities effective today.
Music classes, choirs and the use of wind instruments will be updated.
There were no new confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported in NL yesterday.
There is one active case in the province.
Workers advised to self-isolate:
Meanwhile, COVID-19 outbreaks have been reported at two worksites in the Alberta oil sands.
They include Syncrude’s Mildred Lake oil sands site, and Suncor’s Base Plant – both near Fort McMurray.
Dr. Fitzgerald is asking workers returning to the province from either site to self-isolate away from their household contacts on their arrival and to call 811 for further direction.