Dr. Andrew Lynk, the chair and chief of pediatrics at the IWK Health Centre, said during a press conference Thursday that acute care services for children are "stretched, stretched, stretched." He wants more children under five to get vaccinated.
New Brunswick universities are unaware of any local exposures to a university student in Nova Scotia who died of a suspected case of meningococcal meningitis.
There were 250 average daily lab-confirmed cases and an increase in the number of COVID-19 patients in hospital according to the latest weekly data from the province.