FOG BLOG NB COVID LOG: WITH OVER 70 CASES TODAY GOV'T REPLACES CIRCUIT BREAKER WITH ANOTHER MANDATE

N.B. COVID-19 roundup: Circuit breakers lifted, new household isolation rules provincewide...Province pushes ahead with mandatory vaccination policy for government employees Friday

• Friday is deadline for government employees to be fully vaccinated or placed on unpaid leave

• 566 active cases

• Vaccination of young children

• Cases at 3 schools, 3 child-care facilities

• Atlantic COVID roundup

The COVID-19 circuit breakers in the Moncton and Miramichi regions will be lifted Friday at 6 p.m., but new household isolation rules are being implemented provincewide to try to curb a recent spike in cases. When someone tests positive for COVID-19 everyone in their household must self-isolate for 14 days regardless of their vaccination status, Premier Blaine Higgs announced Thursday. This is because 49 per cent of the new cases in the past week have been the result of household transmissions. Household members who are fully vaccinated will be released from isolation with a negative PCR test on Day 5, he said. A negative PCR test on Day 10 will also be required. "The course of the pandemic is changing and we must change with it, adjusting our measures to precisely target the causes of COVID-19 spread," said Dr. Jennifer Russell, chief medical officer of health.