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.
New Brunswick officials announced 36 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, setting a single-day record since the start of the pandemic. The cases include 24 in the Edmundston region, which will roll back to the more restrictive red phase effective at midnight.
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