FOG BLOG ATLANTIC COVID ROUNDUP LOG: 8 NEW CASES IN NB AND 163 NEW CASES IN NOVA SCOTIA:

N.B. COVID-19 roundup: Fifth death in a week reported at Grand Falls care home...There were eight new cases of COVID-19 reported in the province Saturday, which brings the total number of active cases to 141........Nova Scotia reports 1 new death, 163 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday......NB ROUNDUP......New Brunswick Public Health has reported the fifth death in a week related to a COVID-19 outbreak at a Grand Falls special care home.

A person in their 90s in the Edmundston region has died "as a result of COVID-19," according to a news release from the province Saturday.

The person was the oldest resident at Grand Falls special care home Pavillon Beau-Lieu, where there's an outbreak involving confirmed cases of the variant first found in South Africa.

Abigail McCarthy, a spokesperson with the Department of Health, said in an email Saturday that most residents of the special care home have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine.

She said a first-dose clinic was held for the residents on Feb. 20 and a second-dose clinic was held on April 23.

There are now 41 deaths from the respiratory disease in the province. .......NS ROUNDUP.......2 cases are staff members of care facilities, 1 in Halifax and the other in Lunenburg.......Nova Scotia reported one death related to COVID-19 and 163 new cases of the virus on Saturday.

The death, a man in his 70s, is in the central health zone. It is the province's 71st COVID-related death.

The number of active cases marks a significant decrease from the previous day's figure of 227.

On Friday, Premier Iain Rankin indicated there were more than 200 positive results that had not been logged into the data entry system. It is unclear if any of that backlog is included in today's figures.

Two of the new cases are staff members at care facilities.

One is a staff member of Melville Gardens, a residential care facility in Halifax. The other case is a staff member at Harbour View Haven, a nursing home in Lunenburg.

Most residents at the facilities have been fully vaccinated but are being isolated in their rooms while staff and residents are tested.

The majority of the new cases, 134, are in the central health zone..