18 Campbellton health care workers in isolation; hospital visits cancelled

Campbellton dealing with second outbreak First N.B. community to have a COVID-19 case confirmed in a school. Eilish Bonang reports.

HALIFAX — New Brunswick’s Vitalité Health Network has confirmed that 18 of its employees from the Campbellton region (Zone 5) are in isolation and visits to the Campbellton Regional Hospital are cancelled, as the province continues to deal with a COVID-19 outbreak.

On Friday, a spokesperson from Vitalité Health Network confirmed via e-mail that 18 of its employees from the Campbellton region are currently in isolation, either because they have COVID-19 or were found to be close contacts through Public Health’s contact tracing.

New Brunswick has identified 33 new cases of COVID-19 since Wednesday, with 13 of those identified in the Campbellton region (Zone 5)

Effective immediately, all visits to the Campbellton Regional Hospital are cancelled as a precautionary measure, with the exception of:

St. Joseph Community Health Centre in Dalhousie, N.B. is also affected by the outbreak and has announced the following temporary reductions in sevice.

On Wednesday, Moncton's Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre moved to a higher alert level and suspended visits.