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‘A gargantuan task:’ New Brunswick’s chief medical officer of health on a year of fighting COVID-19
first presumptive case of the new coronavirus — COVID-19 — was reported in the province.A woman returning from France was whisked away into an isolation room at a New Brunswick ER and tested.That positive result signaled what has, so far, been a year of struggle, hardship and resiliency.“We knew this day would come,” Premier Blaine Higgs told a news conference on that day. New Brunswick reporting 29th COVID-19-related death In the year since then, New Brunswick has confirmed 1,462 cases and marked 29 deaths connected to COVID-19.In a sit-down interview with Global News, Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr.