N.L. voters get extension on applications for mail-in ballots Chief medical officer of health Dr. Janice Fitzgerald says there are 338 reported active cases in the province and thousands of people are coming forward for testing.Much of that testing is being done at two outdoor sites in Mount Pearl, just outside St.
John’s, which was the epicentre of the outbreak last week.Nurses and other health-care workers are braving howling winds, freezing rain and stinging snow to reach into cars with testing swabs in an effort to contain the spread of the virus.Jerry Earle, a union president representing many of the province’s health-care workers, said hundreds have signed up to don protective gear every day and work at the testing sites.