The case involves a woman in her 20s who is a rotational worker and who travelled outside the Atlantic region.

Both cases are related to travel outside of Atlantic Canada.

Many students across Atlantic Canada will be celebrating the holidays away from loved ones this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Eight in 10 Atlantic Canadians now express some level of opposition to removing the 14-day quarantine period — up from 77 per cent in early August.

Islanders who test positive for COVID-19 can enter a key from Public Health into the application, which will activate the app's notification function.

There are now three active cases of COVID-19 in P.E.I. 

The four Atlantic provinces are the only ones to have consistently required Canadian travellers to isolate for 14 days when the enter the region.

As of Tuesday, the province had two active cases of COVID-19 and a total of 59 since the pandemic began.

RCMP say Alex Hutchinson's body was found Thursday morning in the Cascumpec area, south of Alberton.

The storm's expected track now encompasses almost all of mainland Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, eastern P.E.I. and the western half of Newfoundland.