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Newfoundland and Labrador reports Atlantic region’s first COVID-19 death

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Newfoundland and Labrador has announced the first death related to COVID-19 in the Atlantic region. The province’s Health Department said Monday it would release more details at an afternoon news conference.

No other Atlantic province has so far announced a death linked to the virus. As of Sunday, Newfoundland and Labrador was reporting 135 confirmed cases.

It has attributed the growth of infections to a clustering of cases linked to two services held earlier this month at Caul’s Funeral Home in St.

John’s. Dr. Janice Fitzgerald, the province’s chief medical officer of health, says that as of late Saturday, 99 of the province’s 135 infections were linked to the two funerals.

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