SAINT JOHN, N.B. The families of people who live in a Saint John nursing home gripped by an outbreak of COVID-19 for nearly three months are breathing a collective sigh of relief this week after New Brunswick Public Health declared the outbreak officially over. Some, however, are still wondering what comes next. Louise Mackin called to check in and catch-up with her mother from the parking lot of Parkland Saint John s Tucker Hall. For two months, this was the closest she could get, but that all changed this week. The next day, Wednesday, I was able to go in and visit with my mom face-to-face, and we were even able to sit closer than the previous visits before Christmas, Mackin said.
The chief of the Metepenagiag (met-EHH’-peh-nah-ghee-ah) First Nation says the community will never forget or stop fighting for Rodney Levi who was shot dead by the R-C-M-P last year.
Chief Bill Ward says it was infuriating to learn this week that no criminal charges would be laid against the officers involved in the shooting last June.
The province’s prosecutions service concluded the responding officers acted lawfully to protect themselves and civilians who were present at the home in Sunny Corner, where witnesses said Levi was waving knives and lunged toward an officer.
Indigenous leaders are still calling for an independant inquiry in the shootings of Levi as well as Chantal Moore in Edmundston.
New Brunswick COVID-19 Update
Two more New Brunswickers have lost their lives to the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing the total number of COVID-related deaths to 16.
Public Health confirmed that an individual aged 70 to 79 in Zone 4 (Edmundston region), and an individual aged 70 to 79 in Zone 2 (Saint John region), died as a result of underlying complications including COVID-19.
The person in Zone 2 was a resident of Lily Court of Parkland Saint John’s Tucker Hall.
“On behalf of all New Brunswickers, I extend sincere condolences to the family and friends of these two people,” said Health Minister Dorothy Shephard.
“I offer my sincere sympathy to the families of the deceased, and I want them to know that all New Brunswickers grieve with them today,” said Dr. Jennifer Russell, chief medical officer of health.
The total number of COVID-related deaths is now at 16 in the province.
Public Health confirmed that an individual aged 70 to 79 in Zone 4 (Edmundston region), and an individual aged 70 to 79 in Zone 2 (Saint John region), died as a result of underlying complications including COVID-19.
The person in Zone 2 was a resident of Lily Court of Parkland Saint John’s Tucker Hall.
“On behalf of all New Brunswickers, I extend sincere condolences to the family and friends of these two people,” said Health Minister Dorothy Shephard.
“I offer my sincere sympathy to the families of the deceased, and I want them to know that all New Brunswickers grieve with them today,” said Dr. Jennifer Russell, chief medical officer of health.
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Jan 25, 2021 6:53 PM
Joan Davis passed away at Parkland Saint John s Tucker Hall on Jan. 21, 2021, at the age of 79. (Image: Fundy Funeral Home/Submitted)
Days after his mother died at a Saint John nursing home, a New Brunswick man still has more questions than answers.
Joan Davis, a resident of the Tucker Hall nursing home at Shannex Parkland Saint John, died on Jan. 21 at the age of 79.
Davis had spent the past several days being treated in the COVID unit after testing positive for the virus, according to her son, Peter Lewis.
But Lewis said he was stunned to learn the doctor who signed his mother’s death certificate listed her cause of death as cancer.