Following four straight days of no new cases New Brunswick’s premier and chief medical officer of health will provide an update on the province’s COVID-19 response Thursday.
As of Wednesday that province has 118 confirmed cases of the virus, but just 14 are considered active. Five people remain in hospital and one is in an intensive care unit.
The lack of new cases over the last week has had premier Blaine Higgs openly talking about allowing some businesses to reopen and discussions of how to do just that are taking place with the all-party cabinet committee on COVID-19. “I’m very encouraged by what has happened and the low count, which is a good indication that we should be seriously considering movement on several fronts, but to what