The Honourable Andrew Furey, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Honourable John Haggie, Minister of Health and Community Services, and Dr. Janice Fitzgerald, Chief Medical Officer of Health, will hold a media availability tomorrow (Wednesday, January 12) at 2:00 p.m. to discuss COVID-19. They will be joined by Dr. Proton Rahman, clinical scientist with Eastern Health and Professor of Medicine at Memorial University, who will discuss his latest COVID-19 modelling.

Prior to this, Dr. Rahman will provide a technical briefing for media at 1:00 p.m. An embargoed copy of the presentation will be provided to registered media at 12:30 p.m.

The availability will be live-streamed on the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Facebook and Twitter accounts and on YouTube.

The availability will be done via Zoom and all media will join by teleconference. To participate, please RSVP to Jillian Hood (jillianhood@gov.nl.ca) who will provide the dial-in details.

Media planning to participate in the availability must join the teleconference at 1:45 p.m. (NST) to be included on the call. For sound quality purposes, media calling in are asked to use a land line if at all possible.

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Media contact
Nancy Hollett
Health and Community Services
709-729-6554, 327-7878
nancyhollett@gov.nl.ca