According to the new crown epidemic notification released by the government of New Brunswick, Canada on December 7, local time, there have been 69 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the province in the past 24 hours, most of which are children from kindergarten to the fifth grade of primary school.
Worryingly, a total of 125 existing confirmed cases have been found in 53 primary and secondary schools and 24 kindergartens in the province.
The circular highlighted that most of the spread of the outbreak occurred outside of schools, and some occurred without following public health measures.
Dominic Cardy, the province's Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development, said in a statement: "Over the past week, we have seen an increase in confirmed cases in schools and we will continue to work with school districts and public health departments to control the outbreak. ”
On the same day, Heather Morrison, the chief medical officer of Prince Edward Island, Canada's smallest province with a population of just 150,000 people, announced that in the past 24 hours, there have been five new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the province, three of which are children under the age of 12. In the past three weeks, a total of 69 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the province, a figure that represents 17% of all cases in the province since the outbreak of COVID-19.
(Original title: The outbreak of the new crown epidemic in two provinces of Canada, a large number of primary and secondary school students have been infected)
Source: CCTV News
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