The Memramcook-Tantramar Community Task Force has published an open letter expressing \u201cdeep concern about how the pandemic is being managed\u201d in New Brunswick.<\/p>\n
The task force is a volunteer organization in the Sackville area created in response to COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n Their letter calls on the provincial government to \u201cprovide more incentives for people to get vaccinated,\u201d reinstate masking in schools, and provide more information in weekly updates.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n That news comes as Public Health changes in the ways cases of COVID-19 are recorded and reported by New Brunswick\u2019s provincial government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The province has discontinued its online COVID-19 dashboard; instead, it has introduced new weekly reports on a government webpage called COVIDWATCH.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It states there were 78 confirmed COVID-19 hospitalizations during the seven days that ended on Saturday - that number only reflects patients hospitalized for COVID and it has increased by 31 compared to last week. <\/span>There are nine people who are receiving intensive care.<\/span><\/p>\n There are other changes to how the provincial government reports on COVID-19.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n For example, the number of hospital staff off work because of the virus will no longer be reported by Public Health.<\/span><\/p>\n Task force co-chair Margaret Tusz-King told CHMA on Tuesday what prompted the publication of the open letter.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Memramcook-Tantramar Community Task Force has published an open letter expressing \u201cdeep concern about how the pandemic is being managed\u201d in New Brunswick. The task force is a volunteer organization in the Sackville area created in response to COVID-19. Their letter calls on the provincial government to \u201cprovide more incentives for people to get vaccinated,\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":89910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[218,223,225],"tags":[3445,284,12159,13749,824,823],"radio":[227],"origine":[274,275,277],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89908"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89992,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89908\/revisions\/89992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89908"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=89908"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=89908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}