COVID-19 has hit neighbouring provinces Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in starkly different ways.While Nova Scotia has seen a modest uptick in cases compared with the summer, New Brunswick is seeing an unprecedented spike in community spread, hospitalizations, and deaths. ‘COVID, COVID, COVID’ — Experts say fatigue over virus in N.B., N.S.
normal Active cases in the province pushed past 1,000 beginning last week — making it the highest active case counts since the pandemic began.While there are many factors that could have contributed to this, an early easing of public health measures could be a major one.New Brunswick lifted COVID-19 restrictions, including gathering limits and the masking mandate, back in July.