New Brunswick government seeking volunteers to assist with pandemic response

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick issued a name on Tuesday for volunteers to assist with the province’s pandemic response.

The Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus is inflicting an increase in hospitalizations and health-care workers shortages, Well being Minister Dorothy Shephard stated in a press release.

“We're asking anybody who can help with medical and non-clinical work to return ahead,” Shephard stated, including that the federal government wanted folks for paid and unpaid work.

About 347 health-care employees within the province have been isolating Tuesday after testing optimistic for COVID-19, in accordance with the federal government.

“We want your assist,” Shephard stated. “Whether or not you might be retired, non-practising or unlicensed — when you have expertise that may assist, please attain out to us.”

She stated the federal government would supply coaching and private protecting tools.

Officers on Tuesday reported three COVID-19 deaths within the Bathurst area, which introduced the full variety of deaths within the province attributed to the virus to 192. There have been 113 folks in hospital with the illness, a quantity unchanged from the prior day. Fifteen folks have been in intensive care.

The province is below Degree 3 public well being restrictions, which features a ban on non-public gatherings and the closure of restaurant eating rooms.

This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Jan. 18, 2022.