1 new COVID-19 case detected in Atholville long-term care facility
One more person admitted to hospital, bringing the number hospitalized to five
Hadeel Ibrahim· CBC News· Posted: Jun 02, 2020 2:42 PM AT
The Manoir de la Vallée in Atholville has an employee who tested positive for COVID-19, as well as five residents. (Serge Bouchard/Radio-Canada)
A new case of COVID-19 has been linked to a long-term care facility in Atholville. New Brunswick announced one new case of the respiratory infection Tuesday, linking it to the previous four resident cases detected in Manoir de la Vallée.
The new case is a person between 80 and 89 years of age, in Zone 5 or the Campbellton region, said a news release.
There are now 13 active cases of COVID-19 in the Campbellton region. Public Health has previously linked the outbreak to a doctor who travelled to Quebec and didn't self-isolate for the mandatory 14 days when he returned.
The number of people in hospital has increased from four to five. One person is in intensive care. The other affected residents of Manoir de la Vallée include three people in their 80s and one in their 70s from the 18-bed Alzheimer's unit.
A staff member from the facility has also tested positive.
The province has conducted 30,666 COVID-19 tests to date, including 2,204 tests in the past 24 hours.
A provincial news release says if you or a member of your family are showing two of the following symptoms, contact Tele-Care 811 or your primary health-care provider for further direction:
Fever above 38°C or signs of fever (such as chills).
A new cough or worsening chronic cough.
Sore throat.
Runny nose.
Headache.
A new onset of fatigue.
A new onset of muscle pain.
Diarrhea.
Loss of sense of taste or loss of sense of smell.
In children, purple markings on the fingers or toes. In this instance, testing will be done even if none of the other symptoms are present.
David Amos Methinks Higgy's Circus must go on and on and on N'esy Pas?
Lou Bell
For some reason the Doc is attempting to steer his infection to someone else in the province and playing the " blame game " . His continued false narratives makes him more guilty by the day .
Bob Smith
The doctor attempted to portray this as "an error in judgement". No, it wasn't. It was arrogance and criticism of it is not based in race issues at all.
Nat Bourret:
How about his Hippocratic Oath: "First, do no harm"? Did he think about anybody else but himself? This is not a racial issue - it's a serious lack of common sense that puts us all in danger.
Lou Bell
And yet , some people will attempt to pass the blame off onto the Premier !'
Dan Stewart
Reply to @Lou Bell: Seems to be more people talking about people blaming the premier than people actually blaming the premier....
Dave Shimla
" just a lapse in Judgement" nothing to see here folks, lets just sweep this under the rug. Nobody's fault at all, not even the "doctor".
Tom Simmons
Reply to @Dave Shimla: Welcome to the 21st century, no personal responsibilities, no one accountable. Government overreach. Quashing civil liberties.....weeee everyone liking communism yet?
David Peters
Reply to @Tom Simmons: Wait till the lineups for everything start, then ask..
Jezebel DeWitt Bukater
Furious!!! After that interview I have zero understanding or sympathy for that so called doctor!!
Business groups have no record of Peterborough councillor asking for information
4 organizations have no record of any contact from Stephen Wright
Jacques Poitras· CBC News· Posted: Jun 02, 2020 4:52 PM AT |
Luc Erjavec, with the Canadian Restaurant and Food services Association, said his organization has no record of Peterborough city councillor Stephen Wright making contact with them. (CBC News)
Four New Brunswick business organizations are casting doubt on claims by a Peterborough city councillor that he sought information from groups like them before embarking on a 10-day road trip to the province.
Stephen Wright told CBC News on Monday that he tried to contact chambers of commerce and business associations ahead of time to see how restaurants were faring with reopening, to no avail.
"Those calls were made," he said. "They were never returned."
But four such organizations say they have no record of any such calls or emails.
"We've never heard from him," said Luc Erjavec, the Atlantic vice-president of Restaurants Canada.
"We're a phone call away, so we would have loved to have talked to him, shared our experiences, hooked him up with some operators to speak with. So no, we had not heard from him."
Similar answers came from two chambers of commerce in two cities Wright said he visited.
"I checked with all of our staff members and we do not have any record of Mr. Wright attempting to contact the Fredericton Chamber of Commerce via phone or email," said spokesperson Morgan Peters.
Sylvain Montreuil of the Greater Moncton Chamber of Commerce said he had checked three different chamber email accounts and "we didn't find any 'correspondence' from Mr. Wright."
Louis-Philippe Gauthier, director of provincial affairs for New Brunswick at the Canadian Federation of Independent Business had the same answer.
"We have no record of the councillor reaching out to us."
Questions continue about trip
Wright's 10-day trip to New Brunswick, from May 14 to 23, has sparked questions from political leaders and outrage on social media, given a ban on non-essential travel into the province due to COVID-19.
The province has launched an investigation into what provincial enforcement officers asked Wright at the border and what he told them. That investigation is ongoing, Public Safety spokesperson Geoffrey Downey said Tuesday.
Premier Blaine Higgs has said the trip "does not seem like a legitimate reason to come into the province."
Wright says he stayed at a private home while in the province, in a "separate self-contained unit" away from another person living there.
He won't say where he stayed or who he stayed with, but says by doing so, and by staying in his car when he did his research, he was complying with New Brunswick's requirement that new arrivals self-isolate for 14 days.
Peterborough Coun. Stephen Wright told CBC News he contacted business organizations in the province to find out information on how restaurants were doing after reopening. No groups have any record of any contact made by him. (Submitted by Stephen Wright)
The first-term councillor said he's involved with economic recovery efforts in Peterborough and wanted to see whether New Brunswickers were "now in a frame of mind that they were willing to go and do in-room dining" in restaurants.
He said he did "a lot of preliminary work" in advance to research the issue but was not able to get any responses from organizations representing restaurants.
He also said there's a difference between "getting something secondhand, or getting it firsthand." Wright did not respond to a request for a follow-up interview Tuesday.
Information available
A border checkpoint on Route 120. An investigation is underway into how Peterborough city councillor, Stephen Wright was able to enter the province, which is not open to non-essential travel. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
Erjavec said he has plenty of information at his fingertips on how restaurants are faring now that they can reopen under the yellow phase of New Brunswick's recovery plan.
He says he surveys members regularly and also worked with the province to develop reopening guidelines, so he would have responded eagerly to a request from Wright.
"I'm talking to members on a daily basis and have a real feel for what's happening in the industry," he said.
Saint John Mayor Don Darling, one of the first to raise concerns about Wright's trip, says several parts of his story have not withstood scrutiny.
"Something is not adding up here. I think people are very angry about this particular case and one of these days, perhaps we'll find out what really happened."
Darling plans to speak to Peterborough Mayor Diane Therrien on Wednesday. Therrien said in a statement Monday that the trip "was not at council's direction or the mayor's direction."
Wright said Monday the trip was his own initiative. He said he was paying for it himself and would not claim travel expenses.
Method of research questioned
Erjavec also questioned the way Wright says he went about his research while in the province. The councillor said Monday he didn't actually enter any restaurants.
"I didn't need to. There were ample amount of restaurants with parking stalls in front of the restaurant and you can look right in," he said.
"I drove past a Tim Horton's and there was one individual in that particular Tim Horton's and the drive-thru line was unbelievable."
Asked about restaurants in downtown locations where there were no parking lots, Wright said, "I wasn't in the downtown core. I drove to places where you could actually see from outside."
Erjavec says judging a restaurant's success from its parking lot is not the best way to assess how it's doing.
"As a leader in his community, it's incumbent on him to get the facts, and you get the facts by asking questions, by talking to people, researching, and not just simply having a cursory glance," he said.
Jacques Poitras has been CBC's provincial affairs reporter in New Brunswick since 2000. Raised in Moncton, he also produces the CBC political podcast Spin Reduxit.
David Amos Methinks Mayor Don Darling, Sylvain Montreuil and Louis-Philippe Gauthier would deny that i ever contacted them as well. However many people that I have been on TV with Chambers of Commerce people last fall and met the other two dudes in person in the past year Perhaps i should contact Luc Erjavec and Mr Wright to be fair to all keep everyone on an even keel with Higgy and I N'esy Pas?
Stephen Robertson Sorry councilor, but there is a distinct smell of male bovine droppings about your story.
David Amos
Reply to @Stephen Robertson: Methinks it smells a lot like Higgy's circus tent which no doubt get worse as the days get longer and hotter N'esy Pas?
Jos Allaire Candidness has always been a rare attribute of politicians.
Lou Bell
Reply to @Jos Allaire: Dans de the house des cartes est tui , dui , et lui . Ah ha !
Lou Bell
Reply to @Jos Allaire: Eichon , Biechon , et Nod . Tres odd . OMG !
David Amos
Reply to @Jos Allaire: Mais Oui
Jim Cyr This is crazy .
David Amos
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Reply to @Jim Cyr: Methinks he would get along just fine with your buddy Trump N'esy Pas?
janice small Oh boy he will have lots of attention...Won't be good attention..You can run but you can'y hide ..His story in New Brunswick is a changing moving target..
David Amos
Reply to @janice small: Welcome back to the circus
Miles Long
His story here and in the Peterborough examiner are not consistent, he is a flake looking for attention.
David Amos
Reply to @Miles Long: Methinks all politicians can be painted with the same brush N'esy Pas?
Dan Stewart
Reply to @David Amos: You ran for office didnt you Dave?
Lou Bell
Reply to @Dan Stewart: Shouldm't one have to get more than 25 votes at least once after they have run several times to be called a politician ?
Dan Stewart
Reply to @Lou Bell: I suppose to be fair one must win an election to really be a politician. So perhaps a political Wannabe would be more apropos.
janice small
Wow this is really weird and has a smell to it and the longer it sits the worst the smell is..Time to take it too the trash.. Sounds like a quiet under the table ( I will pay my expensives ) Maybe a Plenty Of Fish or a kijji on line dating theme..Nothing adds up for this councilor..The more he is questioned the more his story line changes like Canadian weather...Need to have a very thorough investigation from NB and Peterborough Ontario to what he was doing here is a stealth mode.. AND WHO LET HIM IN ??
Tony Mcalbey
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Reply to @janice small: so much for Higgy's police state
David Amos
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Reply to @Tony Mcalbey: Methinks the Keystone Cops had far more class than Higgy's doubtful dudes could ever dream of N'esy Pas?
Bob Smith
Sounds like the councillor's story has more than a few holes in it. Might be best for him to drop the pretense now and admit he came to the province for non essential reasons - a personal trip.
David Amos
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Reply to @Bob Smith: Methinks many would agree that this clown is a wonderful addition to Higgy's circus N'esy Pas?
Wait till the lineups for everything start, then ask..