N.B. COVID-19 roundup: No new cases, province revises numbers and outbreak at Maine paper mill
The province has removed four cases from the province s numbers after two cases were accounted for in another province and two were false positives.
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Posted: Dec 20, 2020 10:44 AM AT | Last Updated: December 20, 2020
The total number of confirmed cases in the province during the pandemic now stands at 574, a drop of four from the 578 reported yesterday.(NIAID Integrated Research Facility/Reuters)
The province’s first COVID vaccine clinic was held at the Miramichi Regional Hospital today.
Public Health says 1,950 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will be administered to priority groups this weekend.
Five new cases of the virus were announced Saturday afternoon.
Two cases were found in the Saint John health zone, and one each in the Moncton, Edmundston, and Bathurst regions.
The Edmundston region remains in the orange level of pandemic recovery.
There are now 49 active cases of the virus province-wide. Public Health says there have been eight deaths related to COVID-19 since the pandemic started.
The province recently added a new designation to its COVID-19 dashboard for individuals that died for reasons unrelated to the virus after having been diagnosed. Public Health says there has been one patient in the province who fits that designation.
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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.
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by The Canadian Press
Last Updated Dec 19, 2020 at 4:12 am EDT
The largest mass immunization effort in Canadian history began Dec. 14 in Ontario and Quebec after the country received its first COVID-19 vaccine shipment over the weekend.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada has signed a contract to receive up to 168,000 doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine by the end of December, ahead of their planned January arrival and part of 40 million Moderna doses Ottawa has secured for delivery by the end of 2021.
The Moderna vaccine has not yet been approved by Health Canada, but Trudeau said deliveries could begin within 48 hours of it getting the green light.