The Department of Health and Community Services is asking people who travelled on WestJet Flights 306 and 328 departing Winnipeg and Toronto for St. John’s on (Monday, September 21) to call 811 to arrange for COVID-19 testing out of an abundance of caution.

Public Health is asking people to do this as a result of the one new confirmed case in the Eastern Health region announced today (Sunday, September 27).

For the most up-to-date information related to COVID-19, please visit www.gov.nl.ca/covid-19.

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Kathy Dicks-Peyton
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