N.L. expands restrictions as COVID-19 outbreak escalates in central Newfoundland – CBC

5 new cases reported Monday

May 24, 2021

Newfoundland and Labrador expanded public health restrictions in central Newfoundland on Monday, as an outbreak that now involves community spread threatens a wider area.

All communities along the Trans Canada Highway from Gambo to Badger, as well as communities along highway routes 320, 330, 340 and 350 — including Gander and Grand Falls-Windsor, the largest towns in the region — will move to Alert Level 4, effective immediately. The four regional highways provide passage to New-Wes-Valley, Gander Bay, Twillingate and Botwood.

“We’re really hopeful that by putting [this order] in place, that we will not have to expand it and that by expanding it to this degree today, that this will help to keep things in check and be able to really, really help us control it to stop that transmission,” Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Janice Fitzgerald told reporters at a briefing Monday morning.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/covid-update-may-24-1.6038478