86 People Hospitalized With COVID-19

There are 86 New Brunswickers in the hospital with COVID-19, an increase of seven from Sunday.

Public Health says 13 patients are in one of the province’s intensive care units, down three from Sunday.

As we reported over the weekend, there were two more deaths from COVID-19 in New Brunswick. Officials confirmed Monday that the deaths involved people in their 70s in the Saint John and Miramichi regions.

No new deaths were announced Monday, but officials did report 220 new cases and 485 recoveries based on PCR testing.

The Moncton zone adds 110 new cases while the Saint John zone has 34 new cases.

New Brunswick now has 7,668 active cases, which includes 3,000 in the Saint John zone and 2,108 in the Moncton zone.

As of Monday, 90.8 per cent of eligible residents have one dose of a vaccine, 83.2 per cent are fully vaccinated, and 26 per cent have a booster dose.

The rate of new cases is 31.2 per 100,000 for the fully vaccinated, 10.5 per 100,000 for the partially vaccinated, and 19 per 100,000 for the unvaccinated.

Of those currently in hospital, the rate is 9.8 per 100,000 for the fully vaccinated, 3.5 per 100,000 for the partially vaccinated, and 23 per 100,000 for the unvaccinated.

Among those in the ICU, the rates are 1 per 100,000 for the fully vaccinated, 0 per 100,000 for the partially vaccinated, and 7 per 100,000 for the unvaccinated.

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— Government of NB (@Gov_NB) January 10, 2022

Public Health said Monday that 443 positive rapid (point of care) test results were submitted with a January 9th result date.

Since the province created the POCT self-reporting web portal on January 5th, over 3,800 results from rapid tests have been submitted.

These numbers when combined with the daily positive PCR results on the COVID-19 dashboard are “understood to be lower than the actual number of cases”.

The reason for this is due to the delay between when people submit their results and the current spread of the Omicron variant.

Following enhancements, the dashboard will include daily self-reported positive test results including the health zones and age range of those who test positive.