P.E.I. announces 35 new COVID-19 cases, stricter restrictions
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P.E.I. is implementing a set of temporary social gathering restrictions after the province announced yet another record number of daily COVID-19 cases.
Thirty-five new cases have been confirmed on the Island. All new cases are under investigation, and contact tracing is underway. The province will be reaching out to close contacts with instructions on testing and isolation requirements.
"With record numbers of cases of COVID-19 in the last number of days and a record number of active cases in P.E.I., additional measures will be added," Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Heather Morrison said in a release.
"These additional steps to limit gatherings and contacts are in efforts to prevent further community transmission of COVID-19 in our province."
Starting Friday at 8 a.m., wedding and funeral receptions as well as wakes and visitations will no longer be permitted.
Organized gatherings such as worship services, wedding and funeral ceremonies, concerts and shows will be capped at 50 people, and there must be proper physical distancing between individuals from different households.
Venues shall operate up to 50 per cent capacity. Multiple cohorts of 50 are not permitted.
The 50-person cap doesn't include staff and officiants.
No choirs or congregational singing will be allowed at worship services, though they can have a single person singing.
Day camps will be limited to groups of 15 participants over a single day. Early learning and child care centres, or licensed school-aged centres, are excluded as they're already operating under elevated precautions.
The new measures are in addition to the temporary measures the province has announced in the last couple of weeks.
The measures will be in effect for two weeks, until Jan. 8.
They were announced on the same day the province said schools across the Island will remain closed until at least Jan. 10, and classes will instead move online amid rising cases.
P.E.I. now has 165 active cases. The province has had 588 total cases since the pandemic began, with 144 of those cases announced since last Thursday.
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