N.B. COVID-19 roundup: 108 new cases, no plan to ban travellers into province
CBC
New Brunswick reported 108 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing the total number of active cases to 1,258.
The new cases are spread across all seven health regions but mostly concentrated in the Saint John region. There are 82 recoveries, Public Health said Sunday.
Interim COVID-19 measures to slow the spread of the Omicron variant came into effect over the weekend.
The restrictions include limiting contacts to a steady group of 20, the reinstatement of physical distancing in public spaces indoors, and reduced capacity at venues like movie theatres, sporting arenas and casinos.
There were no new cases of Omicron reported in the province Sunday, leaving the number of Omicron cases at 30.
"Our case count is still primarily the Delta [variant)," Premier Blaine Higgs said in an interview with Rosemary Barton on Sunday. "It has been pretty consistently and stubbornly Delta [now for] several weeks."
The province also doesn't intend to prevent travellers from entering the province, Higgs said.
Forty-three people are in hospital with COVID-19, an increase of three. There are 13 in intensive care and seven requiring ventilators. Those numbers are unchanged from the last update.
Of those in hospital, 26 are over the age of 60.
"Six of the 43 people hospitalized were initially admitted for other reasons and contracted COVID-19 due to outbreaks at hospitals in Moncton, Saint John, Fredericton and Miramichi," Public Health said in a release.
No one is in hospital is under the age of 19.
A total of 82.6 per cent of eligible New Brunswickers are fully vaccinated against COVID, unchanged from the last update, and 89.4 per cent have received their first dose, up from 89.3 per cent.
The COVID-19 dashboard shows 13.3 per cent of those eligible for a booster dose have received one, up from 12.8 per cent.
Among children aged five to 11 years old, 37.1 per cent have received their first dose of the vaccine, up from 35.5 per cent.
In Texas this week for a global energy conference, the federal natural resources minister is proclaiming "Canada is back" and ready to bolster its energy sector and grow exports.
Members of Parliament last year went on the fewest sponsored international trips in the last 15 years, excluding the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ontario is running out of time to beef up rules that would crack down on negligent and misbehaving municipal politicians ahead of the next civic election, some experts and opposition critics warn.
Six London teens are each facing multiple charges following a break-and-enter spree at homes in the city's southwest end early Sunday, police said.
The Department of Transportation and Infrastructure is putting the finishing touches on completing the Team Gushue Highway, but it means drivers might have to change their routes until later this summer.
Passage of the Nova Scotia government's budget bill stalled late Tuesday night when a group of singing protesters shut down the final vote to approve the budget.
Health Minister John Dornan said Woodstock-based eVisitNB will continue to provide virtual health-care services to New Brunswickers for another 90 days after March 31.
The head of Canada's largest airline has been summoned to Ottawa to explain why he spoke only in English when he offered his condolences to the families of those killed or hurt in the collision between a plane and a fire truck at a New York City airport on Sunday.
Manitoba is bucking a national trend by promising to slash its deficit, while boosting health care spending by nearly $1 billion and delivering modest affordability measures, including a PST cut that will save you money next time you buy a soda and bag of chips.
Premier Scott Moe has said there are no "cancellations or delays" to school projects as a result of the provincial budget introduced last week.
An 18-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder in a deadly daytime shooting on a highway south of Edmonton.
More than a month after the deadly mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, stories of bravery during the tragedy are being shared.
Just over six months after the University of Prince Edward Island's medical program began, the dean of the faculty says things are “going wonderfully.”