N.B. COVID-19 roundup: 1 death, hospitalizations, ICU and ventilator cases all rise
CBC
New Brunswick recorded another COVID-related death Friday, and the number of people in hospital, in intensive care and on a ventilator all increased slightly.
The seven-day average of COVID-related hospitalizations jumped to 89 from 82, while the seven-day average of people requiring intensive care remained steady for a fourth straight day at four.
The new death is a person in their 70s in the Fredericton region, Zone 3.
There are 92 people in hospital, up four, including 44 admitted for COVID-19 and 48 admitted for something else when they tested positive for the virus.
Eight people require intensive care, up two, and five of them are on ventilators, up three.
Two of the people hospitalized are aged 19 or under. There are also five people in their 20s, four in their 30s, eight in their 40s, five in their 50s, 20 in their 60s, 17 in their 70s, 17 in their 80s, and six in their 90s.
In ICU, there's a person in their 30s, one in their 40s, four in their 60s, and two in their 70s.
Public Health confirmed 391 new cases of COVID-19 through lab-based PCR tests, putting the active case count at 3,892, an increase o 175.
An additional 562 people self-reported testing positive on rapid tests.
As of Friday, 50.3 per cent of eligible New Brunswickers have received their COVID-19 vaccine booster dose, up from 50.2 per cent, 87.2 per cent have received two vaccine doses, up from 87.1 per cent, and 92.9 per cent have received one dose, unchanged.
A total of 738,442 PCR tests have been conducted to date, including 1,729 on Thursday.
New Brunswick has had 38,937 cases of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, with 34,734 recoveries so far and 309 COVID-related deaths.
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