That group includes daily commuters who travel from outside of the province for work, as well as truckers from the province.“Public Health is currently working on a process to deliver and deploy rapid screening tests to individuals who will require weekly testing in the province,” Department of Health spokesperson Bruce Macfarlane wrote in an email.“Rapid screening tests are currently used in rural health care settings, emergency rooms, shelters and provincial correctional facilities, as required, with remaining amounts held in storage for contingency purposes.” How rapidly is Canada rolling.

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New Brunswick to provide $720,000 in funding to assist struggling Maritime Bus service

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N.B. to provide COVID-19 update as province reports more cases in January than all of 2020

COVID-19 update on Friday as the province has now reported more cases in the first month of 2021 than it did all of last year.As of Thursday, New Brunswick reported 306 cases of COVID-19 in the month of January. In all of 2020, the province reported 599 cases of the virus.The skyrocketing cases are the result of multiple outbreaks in communities across the province.As part of its response to the increasing number of cases, New Brunswick has moved some of its health zones into an elevated level of its COVID-19 response plan.As of Friday, much of the Moncton area remains in the red level while the Edmundston zone remains in lockdown.

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Coronavirus: New Brunswick rotational workers disappointed with new self-isolation rules

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N.L. reports cluster of COVID-19 cases, says could be evidence of community spread

[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Fitzgerald says the four people involved in the cluster are close contacts of one another and are between the ages of 20 and 39.She also says there is a suspected case of COVID-19 at a daycare in the province, though no positive cases have yet been confirmed in connection with the facility.The fourth case announced today is related to international travel and Fitzgerald says there are now nine active reported infections in the province.This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan.

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New Brunswick reports 27 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday

coronavirus on Thursday.Two of the new cases are in the Saint John region, 11 are in the Moncton region and 14 are in the Edmundston region.“All cases are self-isolating and under investigation,” the province says. Doctors in hard-hit N.B.

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Coronavirus: Rothesay, N.B., man says province now attributing mom’s death to COVID-19

COVID-19.Peter Lewis’ mother Joan Davis died January 21.She had been living in the Lily Court unit inside Tucker Hall at Shannex’s Parkland Saint John facility, where a COVID-19 outbreak continues to rage.

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New Brunswick reports 14 new COVID-19 cases, 2 new deaths

coronavirus on Wednesday as it announced two more residents have died in connection to the virus.Public health says the deaths include one individual in their 70s in the Edmundston region and one individual in their 70s in the Saint John region. The person in Saint John was a resident of Lily Court of Parkland Saint John’s Tucker Hall.“I offer my sincere sympathy to the families of the deceased, and I want them to know that all New Brunswickers grieve with them today,” said Dr.

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Doctors in hard-hit N.B. region warn COVID situation risks becoming unmanageable

Some say they’re concerned part of the local population doesn’t believe in the seriousness of the pandemic and isn’t interested in getting tested.The Edmundston region has been under a 14-day lockdown that began Sunday and has nearly half the 339 active reported COVID-19 infections in the province.Dr.

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India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
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