Newfoundland and Labrador is reporting 25 new cases of COVID-19 today, all in the Eastern Health region.
That includes 10 females and 15 males, and there are now three people in hospital with the virus.
Thirteen of the new cases involve people under the age of 20. There is one person between the ages of 20 and 39 years old, six in their 40s, three people in their 50s and two in the 60s.
Contact tracing is underway and anyone considered a close contact will be advised to quarantine.
There is also one new presumptive positive case in the Labrador-Grenfell Health region. The person works with the military and has been in self-isolation since arriving in the region. Contact tracing is completed and there are no close contacts outside of the person’s work contacts. Public Health says there is no risk to the region as a result of the case.
Officials also noted four of today’s 25 new cases were previously presumptive positive.
There are now 430 active cases of COVID-19 in the province.
Eastern Health accounts for 423 of those. There are four in Central, three in Western and none in the Labrador-Grenfell region.
There are also 29 new recoveries in the Eastern Health region since yesterday.
Further, officials are asking passengers who travelled on Air Canada Flight 8773 from St. John’s to Montreal on Monday, February 15, 2021 to arrange testing by completing the online self-assessment and referral tool or by calling 811.
Public Health says they issued the advisory to be extra careful after learning of a confirmed case of COVID-19 in a traveller with the possibility of potential exposure on the flight. That traveller is no longer in the province and the case is not related to any confirmed cases in Newfoundland and Labrador at this time.
Anyone who travelled on the flight and is now back in the province is urged to get tested.
Eastern Health is also asking everyone in the Mount Pearl Senior High school community to get tested again, even if they tested negative before and don’t have symptoms.
Officials have said they’re concerned there may be people previously undiagnosed, or who have developed symptoms since they were first tested.