New Brunswick announced one new case of COVID-19 on Tuesday, a person aged 80 to 89 “linked to” the Manior de la Vallee long-term care facility in Atholville, N.B.
There are 133 total cases in the province.
There are 13 active cases. All of them in the Campbellton area, known as Zone 5.
Five patients are in hospital with one in intensive care. Six cases are from Manior de la Vallee, including at least one worker.
All active cases are linked to a Campbellton doctor who contracted the virus in Quebec and did not self-isolate upon his return to New Brunswick.
Health officials processed more than 2,000 tests for the second day in a row.
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Several locations in Campbellton hosted extra testing sites on the weekend as officials tried to curb the spread of the virus in the current outbreak,