New Brunswick Education Minister Dominic Cardy and chief medical officer of health Dr. Jennifer Russell are scheduled to hold a COVID-19 news conference at 2:30 p.m. AT Tuesday.
The event will be livestreamed here.
On Monday, the province announced its 38th COVID-19 death: a person over the age of 90 in the Edmundston region.
As of Monday afternoon, New Brunswick had 142 active cases.
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Vaccination plan
In an email, Shawn Berry, a spokesperson for the Department of Health, said the province received 33,560 doses of vaccine last week and more than 15,000 doses are being delivered to community pharmacies this week.
“There’s a direct link between the number of vaccines that we receive and the number that can be administered,” he said.
“For example, the week of April 19, we received 22,230 doses of vaccine. Following that, last week we distributed 23,400 doses and over the past seven days there have been 27,418 doses reported to us as administered.”
Berry said the federal government has plans to send in more vaccine doses in the coming weeks, and the province expects to be able to offer vaccination to every eligible New Brunswicker by the end of June.
Currently, vaccines are available for New Brunswickers age 60 or older, as well as those in the priority groups outlined in the province’s eligibility list.
Some appointments for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine were made available for people 55 or older, but many of those appointments were already booked and the province isn’t expecting another AstraZeneca shipment until at least mid-May.