N.B. COVID-19 roundup

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Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/covid-19-new-brunswick-masks-schools-petition-1.6377757

N.B. COVID-19 roundup: 1 death, intensive care number rises to 16
16 people are in ICUs, 6 are on ventilators
Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon · CBC News · Posted: Mar 09, 2022 12:53 PM AT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

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New Brunswick recorded another COVID-related death Wednesday, and the number of people requiring intensive care and a ventilator continued to climb.

The latest death is a person in their 70s in the Fredericton region, Zone 3.

There are now 16 people in intensive care, an increase of four from Tuesday. Six of them are on ventilators, up one.

A total of 98 people are in hospital, down one, including 49 who were admitted for COVID-19 and 49 who were initially admitted for something else when they tested positive for the virus.

Of the 16 in an ICU, 14 are "for COVID" patients....

 

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Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/covid-19-order-of-new-brunswick-nominations-1.6379732

N.B. COVID-19 roundup: 3 deaths, 3 youths hospitalized, including 1 in ICU
Horizon and Vitalité hospitals will remain at red alert level after province lifts COVID-19 restrictions
Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon · CBC News · Posted: Mar 10, 2022 12:28 PM AT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

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Three more New Brunswickers with COVID-19 have died, and three people 19 or under are in hospital Thursday, including one who requires intensive care, as the province prepares to lift all COVID restrictions next Monday.

Hospitalizations and the number of people in ICU also continued to climb.

Meanwhile, the Horizon Health Network and Vitalité Health Network have both announced their hospitals and health-care centres will remain at the red alert level, following the removal of Public Health restrictions in the community..

...The seven-day average of COVID-related ICU bed occupancies jumped to 11 Thursday from nine, while the seven-day average of COVID-related hospitalizations increased to 94 from 93, the province's COVID-19 dashboard shows.

ICU occupancy provincewide increased to 72 per cent from 69 per cent, while hospital capacity remains steady at 90 per cent.

As of Thursday, 596 health-care workers across the province are isolating after testing positive for COVID-19, 17 more than Wednesday, according to the dashboard. It does not indicate if or how many others are isolating as a precaution.

The majority of them, 352, work for Horizon, while 176 work for Vitalité, and 68 for Extra-Mural and Ambulance New Brunswick...

 

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Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-...h-care-workers-off-horizon-vitalite-1.6381324

N.B. COVID-19 roundup: 1 death, number of health-care workers off is higher than dashboard shows
Dashboard shows only those who have tested positive, but others are isolating after a close contact
Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon · CBC News · Posted: Mar 11, 2022 12:23 PM AT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

New Brunswick recorded another COVID-related death Friday, and the number of health-care workers off the job because of COVID-19 is higher than the province's dashboard indicates.

Someone in their 60s in the Miramichi region, Zone 7, has died, according to the dashboard. No other information about the person has been released, including whether they died from COVID-19 or just tested positive for COVID-19 when they died.

There are 103 people in hospital, an increase of two from Thursday, including three youths aged 19 or under.

Fourteen people require intensive care, down four, and seven of them are on ventilators, up one.

The seven-day average of COVID-related hospitalizations increased to 96 from 94, while the seven-day average of COVID-related ICU bed occupancies increased to 12 from 11, the dashboard shows.

New Brunswick is set to lift all COVID-19 restrictions on Monday, which will mark just over two years since the province recorded its first confirmed case of the virus.

But the Horizon Health Network and Vitalité Health Network are keeping their hospitals and other health-care centres at the red alert level...

 

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Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-...restrictions-lifted-emergency-order-1.6382298

New Brunswick lifts all COVID-19 restrictions for 2nd time, hopes for different outcome
No more mandated masks, distancing or isolation as emergency order comes to an end
Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon · CBC News · Posted: Mar 14, 2022 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

No more provincially mandated masks. No more limits on gatherings or distancing rules. No more legally required isolation for people infected with COVID-19.

New Brunswick lifted all remaining COVID-19 restrictions Monday with the end of the mandatory order, nearly two years after it began.

"It doesn't mean that the pandemic is over," Dr. Jennifer Russell, chief medical officer of health, said Monday.

"We do expect more variants and we do expect more surges. So again, it's really important that people get vaccinated."...

....On Friday, New Brunswick recorded another COVID-related death, raising the pandemic death toll to 317.

There are 103 people in hospital, including three youths 19 or under, as of Friday.

Fourteen people required intensive care, and seven of them were on ventilators, according to the dashboard, which has now switched to weekly instead of daily and won't be updated until Tuesday.

Of those hospitalized, 49 were admitted for COVID-19, and 54 were initially admitted for something else when they tested positive for the coronavirus.

Across the province, 577 health-care workers were off after testing positive for COVID and at least another 76 were isolating after contact with a positive case...

 

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Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/covid-19-new-brunswick-dashboard-update-1.6385587

N.B. COVID-19 roundup: 3 more deaths, 7-day average of hospitalizations up
513 health-care workers off the job after testing positive for COVID
Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon · CBC News · Posted: Mar 15, 2022 3:31 PM AT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

New Brunswick recorded three more COVID-related deaths Saturday, and while hospitalizations and ICU cases decreased slightly, the seven-day average for both increased, Tuesday's dashboard update shows.

The data for Sunday through Tuesday has not yet been released since a full week hasn't passed since the switch to the new system.

The dashboard is now being updated weekly, instead of daily, for the rest of the month.

Last Friday, in a news release, the government said: "The weekly report will be published on Tuesday with data up until, and including, the previous Saturday."

On Tuesday, on Twitter, it said: "Future weekly updates will include data from Sunday to Saturday."

In April, the dashboard will be dropped altogether, and COVID information will instead be shared weekly in the communicable disease section of the Public Health website.

The changes come as the province dropped all COVID restrictions on Monday.

The latest deaths include a person in their 60s and another in their 90s from the Moncton region, Zone 1, and one in their 70s from the Saint John region, Zone 2, the dashboard shows.

As of Saturday, there are 99 people in hospital, down from 103 on Friday, including three people aged 19 or under.

Thirteen people require intensive care, down from 14, and seven of them are on ventilators, unchanged.

Of those in hospital, 46 were admitted for COVID-19, and 53 were initially admitted for something else when they tested positive for the virus. Of the 13 in an ICU, 11 are "for COVID" patients.

The seven-day average of COVID-related hospitalizations increased to 98 Saturday, from 96, while the seven-day average of COVID-related ICU bed occupancies is now 13, up from 12...

 

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Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-...gterm-care-homes-restrictions-costs-1.6389064

64 COVID-19 outbreaks at long-term care homes as province adjusts to no restrictions
673 people are infected, 51 people have died
Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon · CBC News · Posted: Mar 17, 2022 9:05 PM AT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

New Brunswick has active COVID-19 outbreaks at 64 long-term care homes, including nursing homes, as the province adjusts to the lifting of mandatory measures earlier this week.

Homes with outbreaks may soon have to foot at least some of the added expenses themselves, a memo from the Department of Social Development indicates.

And that has some operators worried, according to the head of the nursing homes association.

A total of 673 people are infected, figures released by the department Thursday show.

Fifty-one people have died, including 30 at nursing homes, 17 at special care homes and four at memory care homes.

They died some time during the Omicron-fuelled fifth wave, which began in early January, according to department spokesperson Rebecca Howland.

She did not provide any dates, but as of Feb. 11, 19 people had died, which means 32 of the deaths have been in the past five weeks...

 

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Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/covid-19-new-brunswick-pandemic-1.6393030

N.B. COVID-19 numbers jump, 16 new deaths reported in weekly update
Dr. Jennifer Russell says 'bump' was expected with lifting of restrictions
CBC News · Posted: Mar 22, 2022 10:32 AM AT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

New Brunswick has recorded 16 new COVID-related deaths and a rise in hospitalizations over seven days, numbers released on the province's COVID-19 dashboard on Tuesday show.

Asked about the spike in numbers, the province's chief medical officer of health said it's part of the "bump" she and her team expected when they made the recommendation to end all restrictions as of March 14.

"We had lifted the mandatory order right around the same time that March break was happening," Dr. Jennifer Russell told CBC News on Tuesday morning.

"And so we knew that between that combination of people travelling, the mandatory order being lifted, our modelling did show that we would see a bump in cases and hospitalizations."

The 16 new deaths and the 30 new hospital admissions, for a current total of 129 hospitalizations, occurred in the days between March 13 and 19.

The numbers were posted to the provincial COVID-19 dashboard on Tuesday morning, in keeping with the shift to providing once-weekly COVID-19 updates as part of the lifting of all restrictions.

The new deaths bring the province's total to 336 since the beginning of the pandemic...

 

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Source: https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/n-b-rep...ths-including-a-person-in-their-50s-1.5839417


N.B. reports 13 more COVID-19-related deaths, including a person in their 50s
Leigha Kaiser
CTVNewsAtlantic.ca writer
Published March 29, 2022 1:25 p.m. EDT

Health officials in New Brunswick reported 13 more deaths related to COVID-19, including a person in their 50s, in the province’s weekly update on Tuesday.

The numbers released Tuesday cover case data between March 20 and March 26.

The new deaths involve:
a person in their 50s in the Moncton region (Zone 1)
a person in their 70s in the Moncton region (Zone 1)
a person in their 80s in the Moncton region (Zone 1)
four people aged 90 and older in the Moncton region (Zone 1)
a person in their 80s in the Saint John region (Zone 2)
a person in their 70s in the Fredericton region (Zone 3)
a person aged 90 and older in the Fredericton region (Zone 3)
a person in their 70s in the Bathurst region (Zone 6)
a person aged 90 and older in the Bathurst region (Zone 6)
a person aged 90 and older in the Miramichi region (Zone 7)

According to the province’s online COVID-19 dashboard, 349 people in New Brunswick have died from the virus since the start of the pandemic.

On Tuesday, there were 142 people in hospital with COVID-19 -- an increase of 13 people since the province’s last report a week ago.

Of those in hospital, 66 were admitted because of COVID-19 and 76 people tested positive on admission or while in hospital.

There are currently eight people in intensive care, down eight from the last report. Of those, five people are in the ICU because of COVID-19, while three are in the unit for other reasons, but have tested positive for COVID-19.

There are three people on ventilators, down two from last Tuesday.

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New Brunswick is reporting 3,096 new PCR-confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 2,571 new recoveries from the disease Tuesday. Currently, there are 4,953 active cases in New Brunswick...

 

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Source: https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/ignoran...s-as-n-b-reduces-covid-19-reporting-1.5842863

'Ignorance is not bliss,' infectious disease specialist warns as N.B. reduces COVID-19 reporting
Laura Lyall
CTV News Atlantic Videographer
Leigha Kaiser
CTVNewsAtlantic.ca writer
Updated March 31, 2022 1:53 p.m. EDT
Published March 31, 2022 12:56 p.m. EDT


Beginning Friday, New Brunswick's COVID-19 online dashboard will be no more as the province moves away from its regular reporting of data.

New Brunswick Health Minister Dorothy Shephard says, moving forward, the province will instead release what it calls a weekly "COVID Watch.”

"Right now, our dashboard contains 59 points of information and so, we're going to condense it to what we think is the most relevant," said Shephard.

An infectious disease specialist in Montreal says New Brunswick isn't alone in moving away from its more detailed reporting of COVID-19 data, as other provinces start to do the same...

 

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Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/8736520/new-brunswick-covid-april-5-2022/

COVID-19: N.B. reporting 9 deaths, nearly 3,900 positive PCR tests in weekly update
By Rebecca Lau Global News
Posted April 5, 2022 2:37 pm

New Brunswick is reporting nine deaths related to COVID-19 and nearly 4,000 new positive PCR tests in its latest weekly update.

For the week of March 27 to April 2, the number of hospitalizations also increased by 12 — to 78. There are currently nine people in ICU, which is an increase of four patients.

New positive tests for the week included 3,888 lab-based PCR results and 4,782 self-reported rapid test results.

New Brunswick is also changing the way it reports COVID-19 statistics.

Public Health has now launched a new website that will provide weekly updates. To “align with reporting practices in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador,” the province will now only report hospitalizations of people who were hospitalized for COVID.

In other words, the data will not include people who contracted COVID-19 while in hospital, or tested positive while being admitted for another reason.

“The number of patients on ventilators and the number of hospital staff off work due to COVID-19 will no longer be reported by Public Health, but those numbers will be available from the regional health authorities,” the province noted.

“These changes better reflect the usual surveillance and reporting of communicable diseases. As the province continues to transition to living with COVID-19, ongoing reports will aim to communicate the risks of severe disease.”...

 

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Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/8754863/new-brunswick-covid-19-april-12-2022/

New Brunswick reports 10 more deaths in weekly COVID-19 update
By The Staff The Canadian Press
Posted April 12, 2022 1:51 pm

New Brunswick reported 10 more deaths linked to COVID-19 in its weekly update released on Tuesday.

The latest data released covers the period between April 3-9.

There were 79 COVID-19 hospitalizations as of Saturday, a rise of one compared with the week earlier. This includes one child under the age of 10.

Thirteen COVID-19 patients were in intensive care, a rise of four over the same period.

The province has reported a total of 368 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.

New Brunswick reported an average of 570 positive COVID-19 cases per day over the seven-day period ending April 9.

A total of 3,963 new PCR-confirmed cases were reported in the period, as well as 3,772 self-reported rapid test positives...

 

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Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/8769011/new-brunswick-covid-april-19-2022/

N.B. reports 10 more COVID-19 deaths, 102 new hospital admissions
By The Staff Global News
Posted April 19, 2022 2:03 pm
Updated April 19, 2022 2:16 pm

New Brunswick reported 10 more COVID-19 deaths in its weekly update released Tuesday.

The latest data covers the period between April 10-16.

The number of hospitalizations linked to the disease is unchanged at 79 since the last report, and the number of patients in intensive care fell to six from 13 over the same period.

However, the province notes in its report that the number of hospital admissions for COVID-19 this week was 102, more than double compared to last week’s 41 new admissions. There were also 15 new admissions to ICUs.


New Brunswick reported an average of 422 PCR-confirmed COVID-19 cases per day, or a total of 2,956 over the seven-day period ending April 16. It also reported an additional 2,689 self-reported rapid test positives.

Based on PCR positive tests alone, the province estimates there are 4,789 active cases of the virus...