Three new cases of COVID-19, no recoveries reported Friday

Newfoundland and Labrador reported three new COVID19 cases Friday, but unlike previous days this week, the province’s active case count rose, because there were no new recoveries.

One case reported Friday in the Department of Health’s daily COVID-19 update is a man in his 40s in the Central Health region. The case is a contact of a previous case, but has not been confirmed as part of the cluster in the Central Health region.

Two cases are in the Western Health region. One, a man over 70, is a contact of a previous case. That case has not been confirmed to be part of the cluster in the Western Health region.

The other Western Health case is a male under 20. The case is a contact of a previous case and is connected to the west-coast cluster.

The new case connected to the Western Health cluster makes 36 confirmed cases associated with the cluster. There are three presumptive positive cases associated with the cluster, two more than Thursday. The source of infection remains under investigation.

There are 54 active cases in the province: five in the Eastern Health region; 14 in Central Health; 35 in Western Health; and none in Labrador-grenfell Health.

The source of a case reported Wednesday in the Western Health region has been determined to be a contact of a previous case.

However, Public Health has been unable to identify a source of transmission of a Western Health case reported June 3. Public Health is calling it a non-epidemiologically linked case and indicates there is, or was, an unknown case of COVID19.

Public Health said the source case may have been asymptomatic and recovered, may have left the province or did not seek testing.

Eight more cases — three in the Central Health region and five in Western Health — remain under investigation.

There is nobody in hospital with COVID-19 in the province.