Another senior in the town of Grand Bank has tested positive for COVID-19.
That makes five people over the age of 70 who’ve been infected in the past week, three of them tenants at a seniors complex called Blue Crest Cottages.
The new case, a woman, is not one of the tenants.
In total, seven people in the community have tested positive, including a rotation worker.
Newfoundland and Labrador registered another case on Tuesday, a woman in her 60s who is a close contact of a previous case unrelated to the Grand Bank cluster.
With one new recovery from the disease, there are now a total of 24 active cases in the province. No one is in hospital.
There are no new cases in Deer Lake, where a cluster of six positive cases, including an elementary student, has cause the school and much of the community to shut down as a precaution.
Outbreak alert
Meanwhile, the Department of Health advised Tuesday that rotational workers who’ve returned from the LNG Canada project site in Kitimat, B.C. in the last 14 days will have to self-isolate four 14 days and stay physical distant from household members because of an outbreak there. They should also call 811 to arrange a COVID-19 test.
Normally, rotational workers returning from within Canada can get tested on Day 7 and leave isolation if it’s negative, with some provisos. They are not allowed to enter long-term or personal care homes.
The province is suspending its participation in the Atlantic bubble as of Wednesday at noon. That means anyone arriving in the province from the Maritimes must complete a full 14-day isolation, although a travel exemption is not required as it is for other parts of Canada.
The province has strongly advised against non-essential travel due to a growing second wave across the country.
