The Amherst region will now likely open up to New Brunswickers once 75 per cent of the eligible population receives a first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, Premier Blaine Higgs said Friday.
FREDERICTON They re not calling it an outbreak, but New Brunswick Public Health has sent a risk management team to a Fredericton hotel after five COVID-19 cases were confirmed. Another 10 cases are close contacts and there s also a long list of exposure sites in the city including several restaurants, retail businesses and the city s library. Twenty-five exposure sites is a lot and we know that it doesn t take much for the variants to be transmitted, said New Brunswick Health Minister Dorothy Shephard. Testing is ramping up. Hotel staff and vendors have been tested twice this week. On Friday, an outbreak has been declared at the everett chalmers hospital, where one employee tested positive.
How the rollout of the second COVID-19 vaccine dose could look in N.B.
With hundreds of thousands of New Brunswickers having already received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, here s a look at how pharmacies and health authorities plan to handle the rollout of the second dose, which is needed to offer full immunity.
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New Brunswickers will find out when and how they can start booking appointments to get the COVID-19 vaccine later this week, the Health Department says.