The New Brunswick chapter of the Canadian Mental Health Association says they’re working on more research to see how the pandemic is affecting Atlantic Canadian’s mental health. Executive director Christa Baldwin says data was collected in the spring and fall of 2020, which showed stress, anxiety and suicidal thoughts were on the rise. When we talk about that, that means someone is thinking about suicide or thoughts of self-harm. It’s not necessarily attempting suicide, she said. So, that has increased from prior to the pandemic, from two per cent, to six per cent in the spring, and 10 per cent in the fall.
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FREDERICTON - A continuing outbreak of COVID-19 in northwestern New Brunswick has prompted health officials to place much of the region under full lockdown as of midnight Sunday.
Dr. Jennifer Russell, New Brunswick chief medical officer of health, is shown in a government handout photo. An ongoing outbreak of COVID-19 in northwestern New Brunswick has prompted health officials to place the region under full lockdown as of midnight. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Government of New Brunswick MANDATORY CREDIT
FREDERICTON - A continuing outbreak of COVID-19 in northwestern New Brunswick has prompted health officials to place much of the region under full lockdown as of midnight Sunday.
Fifteen of the cases were in the Edmundston region (Zone 4), two were in the Fredericton region (Zone 3), and there was one each in the Moncton (Zone 1) and Saint John (Zone 2) health regions.
Officials also announced the province’s 33rd COVID-related death involving a person in their 70s in the Edmundston region.
Dr. Jennifer Russell, the chief medical officer of health, said Public Health is assuming all new cases of COVID-19 are the new “highly infectious” variants going forward.
Russell said these variants are in Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia and are straining Public Health resources, particularly in New Brunswick’s Zone 4.
15 in the Edmundston region, 2 new cases in the Fredericton region, 1 in the Moncton region, 1 in the Saint John region.
An individual in their 70s from Zone 4 the Edmundston region has become the 33rd death since the pandemic began.
Moving forward, Public Health is assuming all new cases of COVID-19 are the new variants.
Chief Medical Health Officer Jennifer Russell said these variants are highly infectious and this is no longer business as usual.
She said these variants are in Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia and are straining Public Health resources, particularly in New Brunswicks’ Zone 4.
Russell said if you live in a locked-down area, stay home as much as possible and only leave to procure essential goods.
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