[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]The province imposed what it called a “circuit-breaker” lockdown on Dec.
7 to smother an outbreak of COVID-19, the source of which authorities couldn’t identify.Morrison said the province reported six COVID-19 infections during the lockdown period, all of which she said were travel related.
She reported one new infection on Thursday, involving a man in his 30s who travelled to the Island from outside Atlantic Canada.In Nova Scotia, authorities reported six new cases of COVID-19, three of which were in the Halifax area.And in Newfoundland and Labrador, health officials reported three new COVID-19 infections, the sources of which were still under investigation.