HALIFAX -- New Brunswick reported no new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday. The number of active cases has dropped to 17, with four more people considered recovered.

The province's latest new case was identified Monday. It involved a temporary foreign worker between the ages of 30 and 39. They are in Zone 1 (Moncton region) and have been self-isolating.

All regions of New Brunswick are back in the yellow phase, allowing people to gather with loved ones and go out to restaurants.

Over the weekend, four new cases were reported, all in the Fredericton region. Public health says those cases are still under investigation, but they are all expected to be linked to travel. 

As of Tuesday, 10 of the province's 17 active cases were in the Fredericton region. Public health says most of the cases are either directly travel-related or linked to an individual who recently travelled outside the Atlantic bubble, including international travel. Individual cases and their close contacts are currently self-isolating.

CHILDREN'S TEST RESULTS NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE

Parents or guardians in New Brunswick can now access a child’s COVID-19 test result online.

“The addition of children’s test results to the secure online web portal will provide greater access and relieve some stress for parents or guardians,” said Dr. Jennifer Russell, chief medical officer of health, in a news release.

New Brunswick residents can access COVID-19 test results through the secure MyHealthNB website. Patients, including children, are given a MyHealthNB registration sheet with their name and registration code when tested for COVID-19 at assessment sites and emergency departments.

To view a child’s results, a parent or guardian must first register for their own MyHealthNB account, which does not require a registration code, or log-in to their existing account. Once the parent or guardian logs in to the COVID-19 results application, they can add their child using the child’s registration code and then view the test results.

CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH RESPONDS TO CONCERNS

Dr. Jennifer Russell says she isn't giving any more or less information on COVID-19 positive cases than she did at the start of this pandemic:

"I don't think that's the case, but if that's people's perception, I'm not sure what to say other than we have always reported cases in terms of what zone they're in, in terms of where the transmission occurred," she said.

But there are some questions raised by members of the all-party COVID cabinet committee and suggestions that improvements could be made.

"I find sometimes we're left a little too much in the dark, especially when it comes to cases and various parts of the province where those cases are found and some of the circumstances surrounding those COVID cases," said Kris Austin, the leader of the People's Alliance of New Brunswick. "Because if we're going to recommend ideas on policy the more information we have, the better informed we are to make policies we think are in the best interest of the province as it deals with COVID."

Austin says the regions where cases are identified are very large.

The Fredericton region -- or Zone 3 -- includes Grand Falls to Minto, communities that are more than 250 kilometres apart.

He believes locations where cases are found could be slightly more specific.

Green Party Leader David Coon agrees:

"You could say, well everyone will be on their guard if it's somewhere in the entire region, but on the other hand people who assume it's always in the cities of the region won't necessarily step up their practices," Coon said.

But Coon and Austin each mentioned the privacy of individuals who come down with the novel coronavirus needs to be maintained.

"I think Dr. Russell is understandably very defensive of people who have contracted the virus because of the horrible treatment some people have received on social media," Coon said. "The stigmatization some people have received is awful."

And all three opposition parties say, overall, New Brunswick has been successful at "suffocating" outbreaks and maintaining people's safety.

"I've made a decision, our caucus made a decision that we will trust public health and Dr. Russell and her team and not try to play any politics with this, because it would be wrong," said interim Liberal Leader Roger Melanson.

She hasn't said the "second wave" has hit New Brunswick yet, but Russell says, regardless of where a case is on any given day. "we always have to be vigilant, we always have to be on guard."

Russell said all recent COVID-19 cases have been "imported" from outside the province and there are no signs of community transmission.

CASE BREAKDOWN

New Brunswick has 355 confirmed cases of COVID-19. Of those, 332 cases have recovered. There have been six deaths, leaving 17 active cases in the province.

There is no longer anyone in hospital as a result of the novel coronavirus.

To date, 107,738 COVID-19 tests has been conducted in New Brunswick.

CASE LOCATIONS

The number of cases are broken down by New Brunswick’s seven health zones:

  • Zone 1 – Moncton region: 95 confirmed cases (1 active case)
  • Zone 2 – Saint John region: 33 confirmed cases
  • Zone 3 – Fredericton region: 74 confirmed cases (10 active cases)
  • Zone 4 – Edmundston region: 8 confirmed cases
  • Zone 5 – Campbellton region: 137 confirmed cases (4 active cases)
  • Zone 6 – Bathurst region: 4 confirmed cases (1 active case)
  • Zone 7 – Miramichi region: 4 confirmed cases (1 active case)

VEHICLE TRAFFIC INFORMATION

New Brunswick's online dashboard includes information about vehicle traffic attempting to enter the province.

On Monday, 1,587 personal and 1,041 commercial vehicles attempted to cross the border into the province.

Of the vehicles attempting to cross the border, 18 were refused entry, for a refusal rate of 0.7 per cent.