Newfoundland and Labrador update on COVID-19 amid IT outage in health-care system – November 3, 2021

In a virtual news conference, Dr. Janice Fitzgerald, Newfoundland and Labrador’s chief medical officer of health, provides an update on the COVID-19 situation in the province. She reviews several technologies that have been impacted by the ongoing IT outage in the province’s health-care system, including the online COVID-19 self-assessment and testing referral application. Anyone who needs to book a COVID-19 test is asked to call 811 for an appointment.