Riverview High reopens to students 8 days after confirmed COVID-19 case
Riverview High School reopened to students Thursday after a positive case of COVID-19 was confirmed at the school Jan. 20, while Caledonia Regional High School remains closed. No information has been made public about any new cases at the schools, contact tracing efforts or how many close contacts are in isolation.
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HALIFAX New Brunswick reported 21 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday and reported an outbreak at Manoir Belle Vue, an adult residential facility in Edmundston. Public health declared the outbreak after one positive test at the special care home. Residents were tested on Tuesday, the province said in a news release. Members of the Provincial Rapid Outbreak Management Team are on site providing support for residents and the facility’s clinical care team. There are also new confirmed cases in three schools. There is one case at Edith Cavell School in Moncton, one new case at Ecole Saint-Jacques in Saint-Jacques, and one case at Riverview High School in Riverview, according to a post on the school s website.
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Jan 19, 2021 5:48 AM
In the wake of recent cases of COVID-19, two schools will remain closed in Zone 1 today and students will be learning at home.
Edith Cavell School in Moncton along with the T.E.S.S. (Therapeutic Education Support Site) program are closed after two cases were found last week.
Caledonia Regional School in Hillsborough had a positive case found over the weekend.
Principal Donna Godfrey says the learning at home plan on the school’s website provides instructions on how each student will communicate with their teacher using Microsoft Teams.
Godfrey adds additional custodians were brought into the school on Monday to do a thorough cleaning of the school.
Courtesy Anglophone East School District (ASD-E)
Edith Cavell School in Moncton will be closed on Friday, January 15 for a third day of at-home learning.
Public Health is continuing to do contact tracing after two cases of COVID-19 were identified at the school this week.
The first case was announced late Tuesday while the second case was revealed late Wednesday.
Through social media, the school says teachers will continue to touch base with students regarding their at-home packages or work on Microsoft Teams.
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N.B. COVID-19 roundup: 25 new cases Friday, Higgs on whether we ll go red in the week ahead
The week ahead will be a crucial one for the province as it teeters on the edge of the orange recovery phase, Premier Blaine Higgs says.
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Premier hopes to avoid pushing the red button, says next week will be a critical deciding factor
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From Mom, with love: Alex Colpitts, a registered nurse at Sackville Memorial Hospital, gets his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine from his mother, Phyllis Branch, a pediatric oncology patient navigator at Moncton s Dr. Georges-L-Dumont University Hospital Centre. Vitalité Health Network posted this photo and others of Thursday s vaccine clinic at Edmundston Regional Hospital on its Twitter account.(Vitalite Health Network/Twitter)