The Honourable Dwight Ball, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Honourable John Haggie, Minister of Health and Community Services, and Dr. Janice Fitzgerald, Chief Medical Officer of Health will address the province today (Wednesday, April 8) at 6:00 p.m. to discuss COVID-19. Dr. Proton Rahman, clinical scientist with Eastern Health and Professor of Medicine at Memorial University, will join them.

The address will be live-streamed on the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Facebook and Twitter accounts – @GovNL and on You Tube. 

A technical briefing for media will be held 4:00 p.m. As a safety precaution, all media covering the technical briefing will join by teleconference only. To participate and for further information regarding the video feed, please RSVP to Jillian Hood, JillianHood@gov.nl.ca. Media planning to participate must join the teleconference by 3:50 p.m. (NDT) to be included on the call. For quality purposes, media calling in are asked to use a land line if at all possible.

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Media contact
Kathy Dicks-Peyton
Health and Community Services
709-729-6986, 699-1982
kathydickspeyton@gov.nl.ca