N.B. COVID-19 roundup: 2 deaths reported Sunday, 126 people in hospital
CBC
New Brunswick reported two more deaths related to COVID-19 on Sunday.
They include a person age 80 to 89 in the Moncton region and a person 70 to 79 in the Bathurst region. The province reported eight COVID-19 deaths on the weekend and now has 209 deaths in total related to the virus.
There are 126 people in hospital with COVID-19, the province said.
Of those in hospital, 101 are 60 and over and three are 19 and under. There are 10 people in intensive care with six on ventilators.
There are 74 people in hospital with COVID-19 who were admitted for other reasons.
A total of 545 tested positive through a PCR test, the province said Sunday, and 584 declared they had tested positive with a rapid test
A total of 1,603,873 vaccine doses have been administered in the province, with 91.7 per cent having a first dose, 83.7 per cent having two doses and 38.2 per cent having a booster shot.
Over a thousand people turned up to protest government-imposed restrictions and vaccination mandates in downtown Moncton on Sunday.
Parts of Main Street and Assomption Boulevard were closed for about an hour. Between 1,200 and 1,500 people were there, according to Codiac RCMP estimates.
No one was arrested or ticketed, they say.
Drivers also slowed traffic along the border between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in protest around noon.
New Brunswick RCMP warned of possible delays in the area for motorists.
Highway 104 by the border in Nova Scotia was reduced to one lane in both directions.
This all comes a day after two people were arrested at a protest in Fredericton
P.E.I.'s Public Schools Branch is looking for 50 substitute bus drivers, and it'll be recruiting at three job fairs on Saturday, June 8. The job fairs are located at the Atlantic Superstore in Montague, Royalty Crossing in Charlottetown, and the bus parking lot of Three Oaks Senior High in Summerside. All three run from 9 a.m. until noon. Dave Gillis, the director of transportation and risk management for the Public Schools Branch, said the number of substitute drivers they're hiring isn't unusual. "We are always looking for more. Our drivers tend to have an older demographic," he said.