Riverview High reopens to students 8 days after confirmed COVID-19 case
Riverview High School reopened to students Thursday after a positive case of COVID-19 was confirmed at the school Jan. 20, while Caledonia Regional High School remains closed. No information has been made public about any new cases at the schools, contact tracing efforts or how many close contacts are in isolation.
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Moncton, NB, Canada / 91.9 The Bend
Jan 23, 2021 7:19 AM
Data released from the Anglophone East School District shows a sharp increase in student absences this week after Moncton Health Zone 1 changed colour phases in the New Brunswick pandemic recovery plan.
In K-8 schools, 13 percent of students were absent on Tuesday during the Orange phase.
On Wednesday during a switch to the Red phase, absences jumped to 23 percent.
School district spokesperson Stephanie Patterson says high school numbers are trickier to compile since attendance is period by period and only half the student body attends every day.
Three schools have closed in the past week due to COVID-19 cases – Edith Cavell, Caledonia Regional and Riverview High.
Posted: Jan 19, 2021 9:45 AM AT | Last Updated: January 20
Premier Blaine Higgs and Dr. Jennifer Russell urged residents to continue to follow Public Health measures as the province moves to the yellow phase, warning the variants are still a threat. (Submitted by the Government of New Brunswick)
One person is in hospital, and 174,195 tests have been conducted, including 1,487 since Sunday s report.
As of Monday, Public Health has received 11,175 doses of COVID-19 vaccines and administered 7,732 doses, with 3,443 held for the second of two required doses.
A total of 2,567 New Brunswickers are fully vaccinated so far.
In a news release Monday afternoon, Dr. Jennifer Russell, the chief medical officer of health, warned that although New Brunswick cannot shut COVID-19 out completely, we must do everything we can to prevent it from spreading within our province. We have kept the avalanche of cases out of New Brunswick so far. We must act now to keep this virus from doing even more damage than we are already seeing, especially with transmission now in workplaces.
N.B. COVID-19 roundup: 25 new cases Friday, Higgs on whether we ll go red in the week ahead
The week ahead will be a crucial one for the province as it teeters on the edge of the orange recovery phase, Premier Blaine Higgs says.
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Premier hopes to avoid pushing the red button, says next week will be a critical deciding factor
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Posted: Jan 15, 2021 11:48 AM AT | Last Updated: January 15
From Mom, with love: Alex Colpitts, a registered nurse at Sackville Memorial Hospital, gets his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine from his mother, Phyllis Branch, a pediatric oncology patient navigator at Moncton s Dr. Georges-L-Dumont University Hospital Centre. Vitalité Health Network posted this photo and others of Thursday s vaccine clinic at Edmundston Regional Hospital on its Twitter account.(Vitalite Health Network/Twitter)