N.B. COVID-19 roundup: 19 cases confirmed at 17 schools

Nineteen cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed at 17 schools in New Brunswick since Friday, the COVID-19 dashboard shows.

Twenty-one schools are now actively impacted since students returned to classes one week ago, after the provincial government reached a tentative agreement with striking Canadian Union of Public Employees late Nov. 13.

Monday is an operational day for at least two schools in the Saint John region, Zone 2.

Seaside Park Elementary School and Beaconsfield Middle School students are learning from home, the Anglophone South School District posted on social media.

A positive case or cases have been identified at the following schools, which were not previously impacted: 

A positive case or cases have also been identified at these previously impacted schools:

A total of 472 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed at 132 schools since the beginning of the school year.

Public Health reported 90 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, and 67 new cases on Saturday.

There are 640 active cases across the province.

Thirty-two people hospitalized because of the virus, including 18 in intensive care.

As of Sunday, 87.4 per cent of New Brunswickers aged 12 or older are fully vaccinated, and 93.4 per cent have received their first dose.

A total of 546,196 COVID-19 tests have been conducted to date.

New Brunswick has had 7,669 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, including 6,906 recoveries so far and 122 COVID-related deaths.

Public Health is reporting new potential public exposures in three zones, including a restaurant in the Saint John region, Zone 2, and bingo halls in the Bathurst region, Zone 6, and Miramichi region, Zone 7.