After a meeting with Atlantic premiers on Wednesday, Premier Blaine Higgs told reporters the Bubble will be back in about four weeks time, by mid-April.
Higgs told reporters he should be able to announce an exact date for the reopening of the bubble within a day or two.
The premier said that growth in incidence of variants in western and central Canada were top of mind for the Atlantic premiers, inspiring caution.
Higgs told CBC News, “the timing for us is what Public Health is comfortable with. For me it’s not about rushing ahead, it’s about a calculated move forward, so we don’t have to move back again.”
ONE NEW CASE ANNOUNCED WEDNESDAY
Public Health reported one new case of COVID-19 in New Brunswick on Wednesday. Someone in their 40s in the Edmundston region has tested positive and is self-isolating. The person is a close contact of a previous case.
There are 42 active cases of COVID-19 in the province, with 10 of those in Zone 1.
841 new tests were reported Wednesday, with 251 in Zone 1.
The province has now switched to reporting daily on the progress with the vaccine rollout, though there will be a 48 hour lag in reported numbers. Since the last report on Monday, over 2100 additional doses have been given. There are now 41,328 people in the province who have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, 5.3% of the population.
