The COVID19 numbers for today added another 1,839 new cases in the province with a positivity rate of 9.7%.

That brings the total number of active cases in the province to 20,938.

There are 643 people in the hospital, which is an increase of eight, and two more are in the ICU for a total of 145.

Another six deaths have been reported for a total of 2,073.

There were 1,058 new cases of variants of concern identified in the past 24 hours which account for 63% of active cases.

Cochrane added another 10 cases for a total of 171 active cases and RVC added 17 for a total of 202.

To date, 1,497,256 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.