Students will remain at home for the rest of the school year.
Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robert Strang made the announcement at Wednesday’s COVID-19 briefing, confirming the current provincial lockdown measures would be extended into at least the middle of June.
That as Dr. Strang confirmed community spread outside of Central Zone, in Sydney.
He says the cases are clustered in people in their 20s and 30s.
“What we’re seeing most concerning is this concertation in 20-, 30-year-olds which seems to be local transmission,” he says. “We have not had that kind of a concentration within a very specific age group in other parts of the province.”
Dr. Strang has renewed his call for everyone to get tested.
He says they’re ramping up testing in the community.
“I hope everybody, especially in the Sydney area, is hearing this and we really need people to come out and get tested,” he says. “Especially in this age group, the 20- to 30-year-olds, where we’re seeing most of the concerning cases and the spread within the community it’s vital that we get people tested.”
There have been two more deaths, a man in his 60s in Eastern Zone and a woman in her 60s in Central Zone.
74 people have died.
83 new COVID-19 cases: 59 in Central Zone, 19 in Eastern Zone, three in Western Zone and two in Northern Zone, with 1262 active infections.
