New Brunswick health officials reported 54 new cases of COVID-19 over the past four days and the province’s first death related to the virus in two months.
Public Health announced Tuesday that someone in their 70s in the Moncton region had died as a result of COVID-19, bringing the total number of COVID-related deaths to 47.
“In keeping with privacy legislation, we will not be disclosing the person’s vaccination status,” Dr. Jennifer Russell, the province’s chief medical health officer, said in a statement.
“The aim of Public Health is to provide information that helps other people protect themselves without allowing individual cases to be identified.”
There are currently four people in the hospital due to the virus, with three of them in an intensive care unit.
Of the 54 new cases announced Tuesday, there were 13 reported on Saturday, 13 on Sunday, 15 on Monday, and 13 on Tuesday.
The new cases were reported in six of the province’s seven health zones, with the exception of the Saint John health region.
There were 13 new cases in the Moncton region (Zone 1), 11 cases in the Fredericton region (Zone 3), 11 cases in the Edmundston region (Zone 4), eight cases in the Campbellton region (Zone 5), four cases in the Bathurst region (Zone 6), and seven cases in the Miramichi region (Zone 7).
Public Health says 29 of the cases are contacts of previously confirmed cases, nine cases are travel-related, 14 are under investigation, and two in the Moncton region are community transmission cases.
You can find the full breakdown of the new cases on the Government of New Brunswick’s website.
There have also been 54 recoveries since Friday and the number of active cases now stands at 125.
“Since July 1, 458 of the province’s 519 cases – or 88 per cent – were not fully vaccinated,” Public Health said in the release.
As of Tuesday, 76.2 per cent of eligible New Brunswickers are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and 85.1 per cent have received their first dose of a vaccine.
You can find a full list of potential public exposures to COVID-19 online.
