Health and Community Services reported 15 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, all in the Eastern Health region.
The breakdown includes: two people under 20 years of age; one person between the age of 20 and 39; eight people between 40-49; two people between 50-59; one person between 60-69; and one person 70 or older.
There are 10 females and five males.
Contact tracing by Public Health officials is underway.
There were no new or outstanding presumptive positive cases reported Tuesday.
Five people are in hospital, two of whom are in intensive care.
Some good news Tuesday was that there were 50 new recoveries in the Eastern Health region since Monday, leaving 372 active cases of COVID-19 in the province.
Meanwhile, Public Health is asking passengers who travelled on Air Canada Flight 7484 that departed Toronto on Thursday, Feb. 18 and arrived in Deer Lake on Friday, Feb. 19 to arrange for COVID-19 testing. Passengers can complete the online self-assessment and referral tool, or call 811.
