COVID-19 cases across Atlantic Canada, the pandemic fortunes of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia have diverged in the first part of 2021.New Brunswick reported 657 new cases in the month of January.
In all of 2020, New Brunswick recorded 599 cases of the virus.Just across the border from Aulac, N.B., Nova Scotia reported just 94 cases of the coronavirus over that same period.
New Brunswick’s top doctor confirms 3 cases of the new U.K. variant of COVID-19 Montreal-based epidemiologist Dr. Christopher Labos says it’s difficult to tell why the provinces have fared so differently in the first part of this year.“It’s very hard to know why one province does better than another.