99.3 The River News-Feb 3rd, 2021 - Blog
The province’s top doctor says the UK Variant of the COVID virus has now been confirmed in New Brunswick. Dr. Jennifer Russell says two are in the Saint John region and one is in the Miramichi region. Two are related to international travel and one to travel elsewhere in Canada. Russell says modelling shows if the 567 COVID-19 cases diagnosed last month had been the more-easily spread variant, we could have had over 6,000 cases by the end of this month. But they say the people are in self-isolation and they are hoping they caught it in time. Premier Blaine Higgs says the province is in...