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Update on COVID-19
17 March 2020
The health and well-being of New Brunswickers is our top priority. Staying home will reduce direct contact with New Brunswickers. Everyone has a responsibility to stay home and go out only for essentials.
In an effort to allow 811 health-care professionals to support more people who are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, the Department of Health has authorized physicians to see their patients “virtually” for routine services such as prescription renewals and providing follow-up health advice. You can receive care and advice over the phone, or if available to you, via secure video chat software.
These provisions have also just been authorized for psychiatrists for the provision of mental health-care services. These measures will enable New Brunswickers to maintain social distance and still get the care they need. More importantly, these measures will better enable our health-care professionals to focus on meeting the needs of the most urgent cases and minimize in-person contact in an environment where the risk of passing on infection may be high.
Testing has identified one additional presumptive case of COVID-19, bringing the number of presumptive or positive cases in New Brunswick to eight.
The case is a male, under 10 years of age in zone 3 (in the central part of the province). The patient is a close contact to a confirmed travel-related case.
Additional testing to confirm the cases as positive COVID-19 cases will take place at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.
The provincial government has taken a number of steps to address the impact of COVID-19. As of today, only those public-sector workers who work in critical functions or areas that support critical functions will remain on the job.
Other changes include:
Premier Blaine Higgs reminded New Brunswickers visitation is restricted at nursing homes and hospitals in order to protect people over the age of 70 who are at the highest risk of contracting COVID-19.
Starting today, the Department of Social Development is introducing an urgent nursing home placement process to move 65 individuals currently in hospital beds receiving alternative levels of care into nursing homes around the province. These people will be moved into a nursing home that provides services in their language of choice within 100 kilometres of their permanent address. Doing this will enhance the well-being of seniors who require 24-hour nursing care while freeing up dozens of hospital beds. This will allow for more capacity in our health-care system to address the needs of people facing serious illness.
Today, the legislative assembly sat with a quorum of 15 members. All the parties worked together to pass numerous pieces of legislation, including the legislation to postpone the municipal elections planned for May. This legislation will also make it possible to postpone the provincial byelections if that becomes necessary. A decision was also made today that the house is going to rise until further notice. This will help reduce interactions among members of the legislative assembly. The government is leading by example to highlight the importance of social distancing.
Some businesses have had to temporarily close to help slow the spread of the virus, but Higgs reassured New Brunswickers that grocery stores and pharmacies have access to supplies and will stay open. Higgs congratulated the businesses that are not just staying open and that are making accommodations to make life easier for the most vulnerable residents by setting aside specific times for seniors and persons with disabilities to shop.
Higgs called on banks to consider what they can do to help small local businesses stay afloat, and he is working directly with the federal government to ensure there is a coordinated approach to assist small businesses and individuals who need help.
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in correctional institutions, the province has closed public access to these facilities effective immediately. The restriction includes all members of the public, including inmate family members, volunteers and legal representatives.
These measures include all facilities in the province: Southeast Regional Correctional Centre; Saint John Regional Correctional Centre; Madawaska Regional Correctional Centre; Dalhousie Regional Correctional Centre; New Brunswick Youth Centre; and New Brunswick Women’s Correctional Centre.
Inmates will be offered extra phone calls during this time. Correctional Services will be monitoring the need to continue with this restriction and will be taking advice from officials with the Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health.
Information for essential service workers on how to access child care services is now available through the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development’s Parent Portal or by calling 1-833-221-9339.
Facilities remaining open to support essential service workers will follow the advice set out by the chief medical officer, including reduced group sizes and social distancing. In addition, they will continue to follow strict health and safety directives.
The directive relating to individuals who have travelled internationally on or after March 9 continues to apply and such travellers are to avoid early learning and child care centres for a period of 14 days.
17-03-20
2020年3月17 福莱(NB)
保证大家的健康是我们的头等大事。留在家中将减少接触机会。除非有要事办理，每个人都有责任留在家中。
为使811（疫情专线）的医疗专家能够检查更多有COVID-19症状人员，省卫生部允许医生对常规情况采用网络方式进行，比如处方更新，后续治疗建议等。您可以通过电话或视频软件获得医生检查和诊断。
以上规定现在开始适用于治疗精神疾病的大夫。这些措施保证了疏离的要求，同时为需要者提供了服务。 更重要的是，这些措施将使医护专家更好的为最需要的病人提供服务，并减少传染几率高的环境中的人与人的接触。
测试证实又有一例COVID-19疑似病例，这样，NB省的确诊和疑似病例总数达8例。
今天的疑似病例，为一10岁以下男孩，居住在NB省第三区（注：福莱区域）。本病例与旅游返回确诊的病例曾近距离接触。
进一步确诊测试将在位于温尼伯的国家微生物试验室进行。
省政府已采取多个措施来应对COVID-19。今天，只有在重要部门的政府工作人员继续工作。
其它变化包括:
为减少病毒的扩散，有些商户选择关门停业。但Higgs保证食品店药店照常开门营业。他称赞这些商户营业，并为年长和残疾人设立特殊服务时间减轻其生活困难。
Higgs呼吁银行尽量帮助小的商户使其维持经营，同时，他和联邦政府一起协调为小规模商户提供帮助。
重要部门工作人员需要儿童看护服务可联系教育和早教部门的看护服务，或联系1-833-221-9339.
为服务人员开放的设施，将遵循首席医疗官的要求，包括减少人群人数，保持疏离。另外，将继续遵循严格的健康安全规定。
3月9日和之后进行国际旅行的个人将继续按相应规定要求，这些旅行者在14日内不得进入早教和儿童看护中心。
（有关养老院，立法会，监狱系统的内容，另有详细通告，请见原文和政府最新公告）
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