New Brunswick s vaccination focus now on reopening, not true herd immunity
The Higgs government is shifting its focus from big, ambitious vaccination numbers needed for true herd immunity to more modest, arbitrary targets to lift restrictions and reopen the province.
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Higgs says exceeding 75 per cent of eligible New Brunswickers would be icing on the cake but not the focus
Posted: Jun 04, 2021 7:00 AM AT | Last Updated: June 4
Premier Blaine Higgs says getting more than 75 per cent of eligible people vaccinated is not a priority.(Robert Short/CBC)
New Brunswick Liberal Party Leader Roger Melanson rebuffed the idea that leaders continue using the all-party COVID committee format for collaborating on other issues once the pandemic is over.
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New Brunswick s unique experiment with four-party oversight of its COVID-19 pandemic measures may soon be over.
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Since last March, the province s four parties have come together to work on fighting the pandemic together
Posted: May 17, 2021 6:30 AM AT | Last Updated: May 17
Premier Blaine Higgs formed the COVID-19 committee, made up of four party leaders and key Progressive Conservative ministers, at the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020.(Maria Burgos/CBC)