The province announced one new case of COVID-19 in New Brunswick on Monday afternoon. Someone in their 50’s in the Edmundston region testing positive for COVID-19. The case is considered travel-related, and the person is self-isolating
There are now 36 people in the province with COVID-19, and one of those is in hospital. In Zone 1, there are 9 active cases of COVID-19.
Testing continues to slow down across the province, with only 451 tests conducted, 190 of those in Zone 1.
In the rest of the Atlantic provinces, no new cases of COVID-19 were reported on Monday.
The province also updated its COVID-19 vaccination rollout numbers on Monday afternoon, and the good news is it surpassed the target it announced last week.
12,871 doses of a vaccine were given in the past 7 days, about 2,000 more than the province had planned, and nearly three times as many as were administered the week before.
The lion’s share of those shots were a first dose of a vaccine. Just 43 shots were second doses, which brought the total of fully vaccinated people in the province to 12,195, or just over 1.5% of the population.
A much larger number of people have received at least one shot of a vaccine: 39,159 people or just over 5% of the population.
The rollout continues today with only those people 85 and older being eligible to book an appointment with a pharmacy to receive a shot.
Supply does not seem to be an issue at the moment in New Brunswick. In the past 7 days the province received 19,860 doses. To date, the province has received a total of nearly 76,000 doses. About 32%, nearly 25,000, of those doses have yet to be been administered.
Monday’s news release makes no mention of a goal for this week in terms of numbers, but does say the province intends to complete first doses for all long term care residents as well as First Nations communities.
