Watch here: Health officials to deliver latest COVID-19 modelling for N.L. at 2 p.m. NT
CBC
With health officials trying to get a handle on a growing outbreak of COVID-19 in central Newfoundland, there's the second planned media briefing in as many days to discuss the situation.
Health Minister John Haggie, Dr. Rosann Seviour, acting chief medical officer of health and Dr. Proton Rahman, a clinical scientist with Eastern Health and professor of medicine at Memorial University, will go live at 2 p.m. NT on Wednesday to deliver the latest pandemic update and modelling for what the province could be facing if cases continue to skyrocket.
The briefing will be live streamed on the government of Newfoundland and Labrador's Facebook and Twitter accounts and on YouTube.
As a whole, Newfoundland and Labrador had 159 active cases as of Tuesday's update. 143 of those were in central Newfoundland, with 77 connected to the Baie Verte cluster and 51 connected to the Twillingate and New World Island cluster.
Twillingate Chief Administrative Officer Jonathan Galgay said things are quiet in his community as tourism business owners shut down for the year and residents remain at home.
"It's a little bit of an eerie feeling," Galgay told CBC Radio's St. John's Morning Show Wednesday morning.
"It's a bit of a shift for people. It's come as quite a surprise. We've had a very good summer. Tourists had been visiting from all over, businesses have been doing quite well."