P.E.I. Premier Dennis King tests positive for COVID-19
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — P.E.I. Premier Dennis King has examined optimistic for COVID-19.
In a social media submit, King introduced he had examined optimistic for COVID-19 Wednesday morning after growing gentle signs Monday.
— Dennis King (@dennyking) March 30, 2022
King stated he stayed residence from the workplace and legislature on Tuesday after initially testing detrimental for the virus. The signs worsened in a single day earlier than he examined optimistic, King stated.
The premier stated he will probably be isolating for the rest of the week.
Each Chief of the Inexperienced Opposition Peter Bevan-Baker and Liberal Third celebration chief Sonny Gallant wished King a speedy restoration.
Bevan-Baker had been absent from the legislature for a part of final week after testing optimistic for COVID-19. Transportation Minister James Aylward had additionally examined optimistic for COVID-19 in late February, early on within the spring sitting of the province’s legislature.
The province’s legislature has been working below a hybrid format, permitting members to seem remotely by way of video hyperlink if they’re self-isolating. All through the course of the spring sitting, a minimum of 9 members have appeared remotely as a result of both isolation after testing optimistic themselves or as a result of isolation required to being a detailed contact of another person who examined optimistic for COVID-19. This represents about one third of all elected representatives.
Since January 21, P.E.I. has maintained among the highest ranges of COVID-19 circumstances, counted as charges of optimistic circumstances per 100,000 residents, of any jurisiction within the nation. As of March 29, there have been 3,487 lively circumstances of COVID-19 within the province.
The provincial authorities plans to take away a lot of the remaining COVID-19 associated public well being restrictions on April 7. This may embrace indoor masking necessities and testing of travellers arriving at factors of entry.
