The Honourable John Haggie, Minister of Health and Community Services, and Dr. Rosann Seviour, Acting Chief Medical Officer of Health, will hold a media availability tomorrow (Wednesday, September 29) at 2:00 p.m. to discuss COVID-19. They will be joined by Dr. Proton Rahman, clinical scientist with Eastern Health and Professor of Medicine at Memorial University, who will discuss his latest COVID-19 modelling.

Prior to this, Dr. Rahman will provide a technical briefing for media at 1:00 p.m. An embargoed copy of the presentation will be provided to registered media at 12:30 p.m.

The media availability will be live-streamed on the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Facebook and Twitter accounts and on YouTube.

Media covering the availability will have the opportunity to join in person in the media centre or by teleconference. To participate, please RSVP to Jillian Hood (jillianhood@gov.nl.ca) who will provide the details and the required information.

Media planning to participate by teleconference must join at 12:45 p.m. (NST) to be included on the call. For sound quality purposes, media calling in are asked to use a land line if at all possible.

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Media contact
Lesley Clarke
Health and Community Services
709-729-6986, 699-2910
lesleyclarke@gov.nl.ca