NewsAlert: New Brunswick reports first COVID-19 death
Jun 4, 2020 | 8:57 AM
FREDERICTON — New Brunswick public health officials are reporting the province’s first death from COVID-19.
In social media posts, the family of a man in his 80s who had been living in the Manoir de la Vallee in Atholville, N.B., said he died from the virus this morning.
The long-term care home in northern New Brunswick has experienced an outbreak and as of Wednesday had been linked to eight COVID-19 cases.
More coming.
The Canadian Press