New Brunswick announced 8 new cases of COVID-19 on February 1st and only in Zones 1 and 4, which are the only two zones not in the orange phase of COVID-19 restrictions.
Zone 1, which includes Sackville and surrounding areas, has three new cases.
All new cases in Zone 1 are in people aged 30 to 39 years old.
There are 74 active cases of COVID-19 in Zone 1, the second-highest case count in New Brunswick.
Zone 4, which remains in strict lockdown, is the source of the other five cases.
The province has a total of 273 active cases, and announced 18 new recoveries.
While new cases are announced every day, the active case number is slowly inching away from the 300 mark due to the optimistic rate of recoveries.
18 New Brunswickers, however, have died due to the virus to date.
Three people are currently hospitalized due to COVID-19, with two in intensive care.
Orange is not yet on the horizon for Zones 1 and 4, and an explanation of COVID-19 restrictions is available on the Government of New Brunswick’s website.
CHMA has also done multiple stories concerning the restrictions, including border regulations, and are available below.
Vaccine numbers have been updated on New Brunswick’s COVID-19 Dashboard.
4,460 people have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Vaccines currently approved for use in Canada require two doses, so those who are “fully vaccinated” have therefore received two doses.
17,277 doses of the vaccine have been administered in total, but a large number of those doses are single doses, so the majority of those people are not quite fully vaccinated as of yesterday.
Nova Scotia announced just one new case, but the active case count remains at 10 as there have been recoveries.
PEI has two new cases, both related to travel outside of the Atlantic provinces.
The province confirmed that the cases, one man in his 50s and another in his late needs, were unrelated to one another.
The two were already self-isolating due to their recent travel, and were asymptomatic.
The positive diagnoses were discovered during routine testing.
One of the two cases was on Air Canada Flight AC8302 on January 28th.
While all passengers on that flight are self-isolating, as it is mandatory, PEI Public Health advises they self-monitor for symptoms and get tested should they develop.
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