The Department of Health and Community Services is providing an update on the one new presumptive positive case of COVID-19 reported yesterday (Saturday, October 31).

Saturday’s presumptive positive case was a male in the Labrador-Grenfell Health region between 20-39 years of age. The individual, a resident of Newfoundland and Labrador, is a worker at the Voisey’s Bay mine site in northern Labrador.

The individual’s initial sample and an additional sample from the individual were both tested at the provincial Public Health and Microbiology Laboratory overnight. Both samples tested negative for COVID-19. This means the individual does not have COVID-19. This also means the total number of confirmed cases in the province remains at 291.

Public Health officials always treat presumptive positive cases as true positive cases. As a result, Public Health completed contact tracing. All those individuals who had been informed that they were possible contacts of this case will be contacted by Public Health with further direction.

The public should also be aware that the Department will issue its regular COVID-19 case update at 2:00 p.m.

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