At least 25 residents and 15 workers infected with COVID-19 at 5 N.B. nursing homes
CBC
After getting through about a year and a half of the pandemic with no COVID-19 cases, several licensed non-profit nursing homes in New Brunswick are now dealing with outbreaks.
"We turn green and all of a sudden we're having the worst outbreaks that we've had since this pandemic started," said Michael Keating, executive director of the New Brunswick Association of Nursing Homes.
It represents 71 licensed nursing homes in the province.
The largest outbreak is at the Drew Nursing home in Sackville, a 118-bed facility where 17 residents and six staff members have tested positive.
Just one resident had required hospitalization as of Thursday afternoon, said Keating.
At Victoria Glen Manor in Perth-Andover, one of three infected residents is not doing very well, he said, although that person has not been transferred to hospital.
Two staff members at the 61-bed facility tested positive on Monday.