N.B. COVID-19 roundup: No student-to-student transmission stats yet but COVID hit 36 schools
CBC
The province still can't say how many cases of COVID-19 have involved student-to-student transmission, but since classes started less than three weeks ago, there have been confirmed cases of COVID at 36 schools across six of the seven school districts.
"Multiple cases of COVID-19 have been reported at many, if not most, of these schools," Department of Health spokesperson Bruce Macfarlane said in an emailed statement Thursday.
He did not provide the total number, or a breakdown by school.
"Among school cases that have been reviewed, the majority of transmission has occurred outside the school setting," he said, without providing that data.
Last Friday, when Education Minister Dominic Cardy announced updated COVID guidelines for public schools, he told reporters the province had "concerning cases … in terms of the possibility of student-to-student transmission."
"We certainly have a number of worrying cases in different parts of the province that suggest that is happening."
Later that day, Macfarlane confirmed student-to-student transmission had occurred, but said he could not provide any numbers. He did not say whether the transmission had occurred at schools or not.