今天NB省政府根据《紧急措施法案》第12条宣布进入紧急状态，加强措施以帮助控制COVID-19(新型冠状病毒)的传播。

“每个新布伦瑞克人的健康和幸福仍然肯定是我们的首要任务。”NB总理布莱恩·希格斯说：“在卫生首席医务官的支持下，在全党内阁委员会的支持下，我们正在采取这一非常措施，向卫生保健部门提供更大的援助，以抗击在该省蔓延的COVID-19。”

作为这项声明的结果：

• 所有食品和饮料业务将被缩减为只提供外卖和外带服务。
• 所有根据《酒管法》所获得许可的休息室和特殊设施将停止接待顾客。
• 所有游泳池、水疗、桑拿、水上公园，健身房、瑜伽工作室、舞蹈工作室、溜冰场和竞技场、网球场、足球和棒球场， 攀岩墙、密室逃脱、滑雪场、高尔夫球场、电子游戏机场所、娱乐中心、台球馆、保龄球馆、赌场、电影院、图书馆、博物馆、动物园、水族馆、理发店、美容服务店、枫糖运行商和剧院或其他现场表演场馆将停止接纳公众。
• 学校、学院、大学和私立学校必须对学生关闭。允许有学生居住的学校允许他们继续居住直到他们可以安全返回家园。
• 网上课程可以继续提供。

《紧急状态宣言》规定的其他措施包括：

• 所有零售业务将停止接受顾客，除了：杂货店、药房、修理车库、邮局、金融及借贷机构、加油站、五金和汽车零部件零售商、便利店、动物和鱼类饲料供应商、以及NB酒和大麻的公司和代理商商店。所有被要求停止接收顾客的商家都被允许在网上或通过电话进行销售，并安排送货或取货。
• 每一个被医生建议需要自我隔离的人都需要服从。
• 每一个离开加拿大并又回到加拿大的人都需要在家里自我隔离14天，如果他们在这段时间内出现了COVID-19的症状，他们会一直自我隔离直到症状消失。这项规定并不适用于获卫生署总医务主任豁免的人士。
• 所有其他可供多人聚集的处所的业主及营办商，会采取一切合理的步骤，防止超过10人聚集。
• 所有受管制的卫生服务提供者将停止业务，除非所提供的服务是为了解决基本卫生保健或紧急卫生保健情况。
• 除直接向受管制的卫生服务提供者提供支持的那些人以外，所有不受管制的卫生服务提供者应立即停止运营。
• 所有工作场所的业主和管理人员，以及所有活动的组织者，将采取一切合理措施，确保缩小相互之间在2米内的互动，并按照卫生总医务主任的建议，将风险降至最低。
• 所有工作场所的所有业主和管理人员将根据卫生或安全工作场所新不伦瑞克首席医务官的建议，减少关键职能，并采取一切必要的合理步骤，防止出现COVID-19症状的人进入工作场所。并且，还将采取一切必要的合理步骤，防止在过去14天内出国旅行的人们进入工作场所。
• 新不伦瑞克省颁发的所有许可证、登记、证书和许可证到2020年3月16日有效的，除非法院或其他当局根据该省的法令暂停发放，否则有效期将延长至2020年5月31日。
• 《住宅租赁法》第19条规定的房东因租户拒付租金而要求租户迁出的权利和《住宅租赁法》第22条规定的住宅租赁官员以同样理由驱逐租户的权力将被暂停直到2020年5月31日。

这份声明可以在网上找到。

“这份声明为我们提供了确保新不伦瑞克人安全的工具。这不是我们轻易做出的决定，”希格斯说。“我们相信，这些措施将让新不伦瑞克省采取必要的行动。”

NB省今天未报告19例疑似病例。新不伦瑞克仍有11例：确诊7例和4个疑似。

卫生首席医疗官詹妮弗·拉塞尔博士说：“虽然我们今天没有新病例，但我们知道将会有更多的COVID-19病例。”

Interpretative Guideline: March 19, 2020 Declaration of Emergency and Mandatory Order

This Guideline provides clarification and precision to the Order issued March 19.

Hotels, motels, inns and bed and breakfasts are not required to stop offering accommodation.

• They do need to reduce their food and beverage services to take-out and delivery, to close their pools, spas and saunas, and to apply all the social distancing and hygiene recommendations of the Chief Medical Officer of Health.

Telecommunications providers are not required to cease operations.

• They do need to reduce inperson sales activities and to apply all the social distancing and hygiene recommendations of the Chief Medical Officer of Health.

Construction and maintenance businesses are not required to cease operations.

• They do need to apply all the social distancing and hygiene recommendations of the Chief Medical Officer of Health.

Call/contact centres are not required to cease operations.

• They do need to apply all the social distancing and hygiene recommendations of the Chief Medical Officer of Health.

Cleaning contractors are not required to cease operations.

• They do need to apply all the social distancing and hygiene recommendations of the Chief Medical Officer of Health.

Security agencies are not required to cease operations.

• They do need to apply all the social distancing and hygiene recommendations of the Chief Medical Officer of Health.

Bussing, taxi and delivery businesses are not required to cease operations.

• They do need to apply all the social distancing and hygiene recommendations of the Chief Medical Officer of Health, to the extent possible for taxicabs.

Garbage removal, landfill and recycling removal businesses are not required to cease operations.

• They do need to apply all the social distancing and hygiene recommendations of the Chief Medical Officer of Health.

News gathering and dissemination businesses are not required to cease operations.

• They do need to apply all the social distancing and hygiene recommendations of the Chief Medical Officer of Health.

Laundromats are not required to cease operations.

• They do need to apply all the social distancing and hygiene recommendations of the Chief Medical Officer of Health.

Food processing and packing businesses are not required to cease operations.

• They do need to apply all the social distancing and hygiene recommendations of the Chief Medical Officer of Health.

Production and manufacturing are not required to cease operations.

• They do need to apply all the social distancing and hygiene recommendations of the Chief Medical Officer of Health.

Law and accounting firms are not required to cease operations.

• They do need to apply all the social distancing and hygiene recommendations of the Chief Medical Officer of Health.

Veterinarians are not required to cease operations.

• They do need to apply all the social distancing and hygiene recommendations of the Chief Medical Officer of Health.

Plumbing, electrical and environmental cleanup businesses are not required to cease operations.

• They do need to apply all the social distancing and hygiene recommendations of the Chief Medical Officer of Health.

Appliance and home repair businesses are not required to cease operations.

• They do need to apply all the social distancing and hygiene recommendations of the Chief Medical Officer of Health.

Office supplies retailers are not required to cease operations.

• They do need to apply all the social distancing and hygiene recommendations of the Chief Medical Officer of Health. They are encouraged to drive as much business as possible to online and phone orders, with pickup and delivery.

Vehicle rental businesses are not required to cease operations.

• They do need to apply all the social distancing and hygiene recommendations of the Chief Medical Officer of Health. They are encouraged to drive as much business as possible to online and phone orders, with pickup and delivery.

The following retail sales lines of business are expected to stop admitting patrons immediately, but remain free to sell online and by the phone and to maintain pickup and delivery activities:

• electronics, furniture, appliance, vehicle. Automobile dealers are not required to cease their garage/service centre service operations, and online/phone sales and pickup/delivery activities are permitted. Showrooms must close to patrons and the public and test drives must cease.

Paragraph 5 of the order applies to “regulated health services providers”. These include:

• cardiology technologists, chiropractors, dental hygienists, dental technicians, dentists, denturists, dieticians, licenced counselling therapists, licenced practical nurses, massage therapists, medical laboratory technicians, medical radiation technicians, midwives, nurses and nurse practitioners, occupational therapists, opticians, optometrists, paramedics, physicians and surgeons, physician assistants, physiotherapists, podiatrists, psychologists, respiratory therapists, social workers, speech language pathologists and audiologists.

Paragraph 10 of the Order requires all employers to take every reasonable step required to prevent persons from entering workplaces who have travelled internationally in the previous 14 days. To be clear, this applies going forward: many workplaces have employees in them who returned to Canada and to work healthy before March 13, and employers are not required to remove them from their workplaces until/unless they develop COVID-19 symptoms.

Where the requirement of 14 days self-isolation for workers has been exempted by the Chief Medical Officer of Health, these exemptions continue, including those granted before the issuing of the March 19 Order. (For example, this exemption includes truckers moving product between Canada and the US, where they are following CMOH guidelines to reduce risk while traveling.) There is no exemption for people who choose to travel to and from the US to shop.