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Two cases of COVID-19 variant first associated with South Africa confirmed in New Brunswick Kevin Bissett Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Health officials in New Brunswick confirmed on Monday two cases of a variant of the novel coronavirus first identified in South Africa. Officials said the two cases were reported in the Saint John region earlier this month. Chief medical offi...

The people of St-Pierre-Miquelon are starting to get cabin fever, says a resident of the French islands. Social Sharing CBC Radio · Posted: Apr 09, 2021 5:44 PM ET | Last Updated: April 9 St-Pierre-Miquelon, a French territory off the coast of Newfoundland, is home to 6,000 people.(Eddy Kennedy/CBC) comments As It Happens6:26These French islands off Newfoundland want to join the Atlantic Bubble The people of St-Pierre-Miquelon are starting to get cabin fever, says a resident of the French islands. St-Pierre-Miquelon is a French territory with 6,000 inhabitants off the coast of Newfoundl...

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 ...

NS Premier Iain Rankin (CPAC) Nova Scotia is opening a bubble with Newfoundland and Labrador – two weeks ahead of the expected reopening of the Atlantic Bubble. Nova Scotia Premier Iain Rankin says a decision to open a bubble with that province was made based on advice from Public Health noting how Newfoundland currently has low COVID-19 case numbers. However, this will not be a two-way street since Newfoundland residents will still have to self-isolate upon returning home. Nova Scotia already has the same measure in place with New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Premier Rankin says the...

The unsettling case of Dr. Ngola, the RCMP and the New Brunswick government  Craig Offman: Fifty pages of emails, memos and handwritten notes offer details into a troubled investigation into a COVID-19 outbreak By Craig Offman April 7, 2021 Premier Blaine Higgs heads to cast his vote in the New Brunswick provincial election in Quispamsis, N.B. on Sept. 14, 2020 (CP/Andrew Vaughan) Last spring, Jean Robert Ngola Monzinga was arguably Canada’s most infamous COVID spreader, a small-town doctor whom authorities singled out as patient zero during an outbreak that infected 41 people ...