FOG BLOG N.B. CORONAVIRUS UPDATE LOG: WORST DAY AT 31 NEW CASES!

WORST ONE DAY RECORD FOR COVID 19 CASES IN NEW BRUNSWICK REACHED TODAY WITH 31! 18 CASES ALONE IN THE SAINT JOHN REGION!......... For the second day in a row, New Brunswick is reporting a record number of new COVID-19 cases.

With 31 new cases announced on Wednesday, the number tops Tuesday's total of 27 new cases. This brings New Brunswick's number of active cases to 110.

There are also 97 health-care workers off the job for COVID-related reasons and there is a renewed outbreak at Parkland Saint John, a long-term care facility.As grim as it looks today, things will likely get worse before it gets better," Dr. Jennifer Russell, New Brunswick's chief medical officer of health, said Wednesday afternoon during a news conference in Fredericton. "I don’t like to say that but that is a reality. We must get serious about slowing the spread of COVID-19 virus. Everyone must act now to follow public health guidelines and advice. The alternative is even stricter public health measures to counter the spread of this disease."

At this point, healthcare officials are not ruling anything out, including taking a step back into the even more restriction red phase.

"We’re not eliminating any kind of options of what we can do to control of this," said Health Minister Dorothy Shephard.