There were 32 new cases in the region today: 1 each in Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador, 3 in Nova Scotia, and 27 in New Brunswick.
There are now 114 known, active cases in the region.
PEI reported 1 new cases.
It was related to travel and they are isolating as required.
PEI is lifting some additional restrictions on larger, organized gatherings.
This leaves PEI with just 4 known active cases.
NFLD likewise reported 1 new case today.
It was related to international travel and they are isolating as required.
This leaves NFLD with 11 known, active cases.
NB reported 27 new cases today, the largest single-day count since the start of the pandemic.
By location: 2 in Campbellton, 2 in Edmundston, 3 in Saint John, 9 in Moncton, and 11 in Fredericton.
Due to the rapid increase in cases, the whole province moves to Orange status.
In Orange status, people are encouraged to limit their close contacts to their household members (one-house bubbles).
Travel between different areas within the province is discouraged.
Businesses are still open, but lower occupancy limits and spacing requirements are in effect
The NB premier and Dr. Russell indicated in today's briefing that there are many points of contact between the new cases, and highlighted the fact some of the index cases had attended large gatherings while symptomatic.
Please don't be around others when sick in a pandemic.
The 7-day average of NB is now approaching the peak of the 2nd wave in November.
Here's hoping they can get the situation under control soon.
There are now 80 known, active cases in NB.
NS reported 3 new cases today.
All were in Halifax. One was travel-related and the other two are still under investigation.
Schools are set to re-open on Monday after an extended winter break. Indoor dining resumed yesterday.
There are now 19 known, active cases in NS.
Here are the updated vaccination roll-out progress graphs. Vaccination data isn't updated daily, and it seems likely that we'll be getting some retro-active updates, but I'll post it routinely so we can all keep an eye on it.
Updates will likely be ~weekly or so.
And here are the updated national vaccine roll-out graphs.
I'll update the code on these at some point to make them a bit nicer.
Have a great rest of the night!
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Let's talk about vaccine distribution.
I post some version of this graph every day. Solid line is doses distributed to the province, dashed are doses administered. Shade is the difference. Easy.
Here's Ontario for comparison.
From this one graph, you can get a quick sense of how much a province *can* vaccinate and how quickly it *is* vaccinating given that constraint.
But there's bunch of information trapped in that shaded area. (Argh! Trapped data!)
The two SARS-CoV-2 vaccines currently in circulation are Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna.
They are both 2-dose mRNA vaccines. You get one dose and then the 2nd a set number of weeks later. After ~10 days you're at 95% lower risk of developing symptoms (hurray!).
Early on, the Atlantic region didn't have quite as many cases per capita as other parts of the country.
With our smaller, more rural population, than means we were closer to zero cases than almost anywhere in the country.
So, good starting position. We went in to the March/April lockdowns with about as many cases as other provinces had at their lowest points in the pandemic so far.
There were 29 new cases in the Bubble today: 3 in Newfoundland and Labrador, 12 in New Brunswick, and 14 in Nova Scotia.
There are now 249 known, active cases in the Bubble, the most since 08MAY2020.
There was no change in status in PEI today, so they have 2 known, active cases.
The 3 new cases in NFLD are each in different parts of Newfoundland (the island). Two were travel-related (one from Nova Scotia and one international). One was a close contact of an existing case.