New Brunswick’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Jennifer Russell has recommended numerous businesses and public spaces to be closed starting Tuesday until further notice.
They are as follows:
- libraries
- museums
- theatres and performance spaces
- swimming pools, spas, saunas and water parks
- arenas
- training centres and dance, spinning, zumba and yoga centres
- zoos and aquariums
- recreational sites such as ski hills, amusement parks, trampoline centres etc.
- cinemas and arcades
- bars and discos
- restaurants which offer buffets
- sugar bush operations open to the public
Public Health is also asking restaurant owners to limit the number of customers to 50 per cent of the capacity of their dining areas.
Take-out orders, deliveries and drive-through services are permitted.
Child-care providers are being urged to close with the exception of those that provide services to essential service workers such as health care workers.
The following update on COVID-19 (the novel coronavirus) was issued today by Dr. Jennifer Russell, chief medical officer of health: https://t.co/w7yGt4e84Z
— Government of NB (@Gov_NB) March 16, 2020
It comes as the province announced another presumptive COVID-19 case, giving a total of seven cases.
The latest case is a woman from 20 to 30 years old who lives in Zone 2 (between the St. Stephen area and the Sussex area) and recently travelled to Greece.
The patient was screened, treated, tested and is in self-isolation and her contacts are now being traced.
Russell says she is urging public sector employees to work from home wherever feasible and redeploying staff to focus on the most critical activities.
Private sector companies are also being encouraged to allow their employees to work from home.
