FREDERICTON It s the season of giving, and for a tuna processing company on Prince Edward Island, offering up two of their ultra-low temperature freezers to New Brunswick to store COVID-19 vaccines was in their nature. They re not the typical freezer you can just pick up at the local appliance store, said Jason Tompkins of One Tuna in North Lake, P.E.I. The New Brunswick government accepted and one is on its way to the province now. And we want to thank him very much for that offer, said Health Minister Dorothy Shephard. That jovial spirit extended through much of the legislature on Friday.
Posted: Dec 18, 2020 4:05 PM AT | Last Updated: December 18, 2020
Premier Blaine Higgs said Friday that the vaccine focus could be shifted to Zone 4, which is very vulnerable, if test results and other factors warrant it. I d certainly want to hear the facts and make a decision based on risk, he said.(Radio-Canada file photo)
Seniors over 85 Shephard says she has received word that the second shipment of 3,900 doses destined for New Brunswick next week will go to a different location. We have confirmed that we will be sending a portion of our next shipment to Moncton, Shephard said. The details are not worked out yet. We re focusing on assessing to see how Miramichi goes before giving out those details. The Paramedic Association of New Brunswick is hoping coordination of healthcare workers receiving the vaccine is better organized after some frontline staff were invited to get immunized, but couldn t get a shift change in order to do it.
FREDERICTON With more vaccine on the horizon, some are already suggesting COVID-19 shots should be mandatory. The idea of making vaccinations against childhood diseases mandatory in public schools prompted great debate in New Brunswick just last year. However, Education Minister Dominic Cardy the politician who pushed mandatory vaccinations among schoolchildren isn t yet calling for it this time. Since he was elected two years ago, Cardy has fought for mandatory vaccines within New Brunswick s school system. But COVID-19 vaccines are not ready to be used on children, and the education minister says he s not ready to suggest they be made mandatory.