A pediatric infectious disease doctor is encouraging parents to get their young children vaccinated against COVID-19 now that a vaccine has been approved for this age group.
Public health officials have raised questions around whether some COVID-19 cases in the province went undetected in early 2021, after an apparent mismatch between the amount of COVID-19 appearing in wastewater compared to the province’s own COVID-19 testing.
New Brunswick Public Health is now offering second COVID-19 booster vaccines to anyone aged 18 and up as long as it has been five months since a perso.
New Brunswick has no confirmed cases of monkeypox and no new suspected cases, but Public Health is putting together some resources for clinicians and working on a public awareness campaign.