FOG BLOG COVID 19 LOG: N.S. CASES EXPLODE AT ALMOST 290, 177 HERE, NONE ARE OMICRON, 32 CASES IN SJ

N.B. COVID-19 roundup: Province sets single-day high of 177 new cases.......Total active cases reach pandemic high of 1,237, total number of cases since pandemic began surpasses 10,000.....

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New Brunswick set a single-day COVID-19 case-count record Thursday, with 177 new cases of the virus confirmed. None of them are the new highly transmissible Omicron variant, according to a news release from Public Health. The previous single-day record was one week ago, when 174 new cases were recorded. The province's total number of active cases also reached a pandemic record-high of 1,237, and the province's total case count since the pandemic began has now surpassed the 10,000 mark, at 10,150. It took New Brunswick 562 days to reach 5,000 cases and just 69 more days to double that, Ray Harris, a data analyst in Fredericton who maintains a COVID-19 tracking website, pointed out on Twitter...The regional breakdown of the new cases includes:

Moncton region, Zone 1 — 33 cases
Saint John region, Zone 2 — 32 cases
Fredericton region, Zone 3 — 60 cases
Edmundston region, Zone 4 — 17 cases
Campbellton region, Zone 5 — three cases
Bathurst region, Zone 6 — four cases
Miramichi region, Zone 7 — 28 cases

The province has stopped providing a further breakdown of the cases, including ages and origins, in its daily updates, directing people instead to its "enhanced" COVID-19 dashboard.

Forty-one people are in hospital in New Brunswick with COVID-19, down one from Wednesday. They include 15 people in intensive care, up one. Seven of them are on ventilators.

The province is "on schedule" to get about 51,000 booster doses into the arms of eligible New Brunswickers before the end of the month, said Shephard.

She made the statement in the legislature Thursday morning in response to questions from Interim Liberal Leader Roger Melanson about vaccination clinics.

He said up to 400 people in Fredericton lined up outside the walk-in vaccination clinic at Brookside Mall on Wednesday night to get their booster shot.