WATCH: N.L. sees 21st COVID-19 death, as Fitzgerald announces isolation period changes
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Another person has died of COVID-19 in Newfoundland and Labrador — the province's 21st death from the virus.
Public Health says a woman in her 60s in the Central Health region has died.
In a release Friday, Public Health also said four people are in hospital due to the virus, the same as Thursday.
A total of 3,835 tests have been done in the past 24 hours, for a positivity rate of 12.5 per cent.
With 480 new cases and 168 recoveries reported Friday, there are now 4,370 known active cases in the province.
The number of confirmed cases may not represent the true spread of the virus, however, as the Department of Health has advised anyone who is a close contact of a case and has symptoms to assume they are positive for COVID-19.
This is a breaking news update. A previous version of the story appears below.
People in Newfoundland and Labrador who have COVID-19 — or are a close contact of someone with the virus — will soon have to spend less time in isolation.
As of midnight, those who are fully vaccinated and have tested positive for COVID-19, or are showing symptoms after being in close contact with someone who has tested positive, will now have to isolate for seven days instead of 10.
Fully vaccinated close contacts of someone with COVID-19 who are not showing symptoms will have to isolate for five days if they are able to isolate the case and non-household contacts, and seven days if they cannot.
Those times are down from seven and 10 days, respectively.
Unvaccinated household contacts of someone with the virus will have to isolate for 10 days, whether they isolate away from the case or not.
Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Janice Fitzgerald will provide more details on the changes to isolation during a briefing at 3:30 p.m. NT.
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