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For 10 weeks now, doctors in New Brunswick who refused to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination have not been able to practise medicine, and an untold number of their patients are still in the lurch.   

More than 4,000 New Brunswickers have responded to the province's "urgent" call last month for volunteers to help with the COVID-19 pandemic response, but so far, only about 100 have been put to work.

Fredericton resident said she couldn't access care online due to 'high demand.' But the service's co-founder says that won't be a regular occurrence, and patients should try again later.

The month of January 2022 marked the deadliest in terms of COVID-19 deaths in the province since the start of the pandemic, with 78 people succumbing to the disease.

Marti O'Connell has been trying in vain for weeks to get a booster shot for her husband, Jerry, who has been at the Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont Hospital in Moncton since mid-November, waiting for a nursing home bed.

New Brunswick Public Health is announcing the number of hospital patients who are admitted for COVID-19, and those who tested positive after admission, and some experts say distinguishing the two statistics can sometimes be tricky.

Horizon Health Network hospitals will now provide KN95 masks to members of the public who wish to receive one upon entry, and the province has revised its mask guidance for health-care workers as the COVID-19 Omicron variant continues to surge.

Blaine Harris, registrar for the New Brunswick Registered Barbers' Association, is condemning a handful of barbers who he says defied the province's Level 3 COVID-19 Winter Plan by operating their businesses on Monday.

New Brunswick will soon begin releasing the number of positive COVID-19 results from self-reported rapid tests, but that still won’t necessarily present an accurate picture of the virus’s spread in the province.

New Brunswick has lost its deputy chief medical officer of health to Nova Scotia.