New Brunswick Hits Green Phase 1 Target
The first phase of the Green level will eliminate the household bubble and allow New Brunswickers to maintain close contact with all friends and family members.
The first phase of the Green level will eliminate the household bubble and allow New Brunswickers to maintain close contact with all friends and family members.
Public Health had hoped to enter Phase 1 of its “Path to Green” plan on Monday, but only 70 percent of eligible people had received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.
Premier Blaine Higgs releases a tentative plan to return the province to normal if all goes well in the next two months.
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs said inspectors visited 172 businesses this week and found 23 didn’t have any Covid-19 operational plan, while some employees don’t wear masks.
With the provincial election behind us and Premier Higgs set to shuffle his cabinet, Krista Ross says New Brunswick businesses are eager for our elected officials to return their focus to economic recovery.
158 people were on the flight with the person who tested positive, and 430 temporary foreign workers have now arrived in New Brunswick.
Blaine Higgs also says he’ll ensure farmers and seafood processing plants can find workers with the province’s workforce unable to fill the need caused by the ban on temporary foreign workers.
Blaine Higgs plans to unveil more details about the province’s economic recovery plan before the end of this week.
This makes New Brunswick the only province in Canada to have no existing cases, joining Yukon and the Northwest Territories with zero active cases as of Saturday afternoon.
The local labour force doesn’t have the skillset, knowledge, and willingness to do the physical work required at farms.