Public Health in New Brunswick reported 133 new COVID-19 cases and two deaths in the province on Thursday.
A person in their 70s from the Fredericton region and a person 90 and over in the Miramichi region have died.
The province has now recorded 82 deaths linked to COVID-19.
There are 39 new cases in the Moncton zone, nine new cases in the Saint John area and 25 new cases in the Fredericton zone.
There are also 29 cases in the Edmundston region, 17 in the Campbellton health zone, three in the Bathurst region, and 11 in the Miramichi area.
Public Health says 56 per cent of the new cases are unvaccinated, eight per cent are partially vaccinated, and 36 per cent are fully vaccinated.
The number of active cases is now 1,103 after 102 recoveries. Sixty-three people are in hospital due to the virus, including 19 in intensive care.
Of those in the hospital, 62 per cent are unvaccinated, eight per cent are partially vaccinated, and 30 per cent of fully vaccinated. In the ICU, unvaccinated people make up 89 per cent of the cases while remaining 11 per cent are partially vaccinated.
81.8 per cent of the eligible population is fully vaccinated against the virus, while 91 per cent has at least one dose.
Rapid testing program expanding
Meanwhile, the province announced it would be expanding its rapid-testing program.
People in circuit breaker areas two and older who do not have COVID-19 symptoms and have not been identified by Public Health as a close contact of a confirmed case will be able to pick up free rapid-test kits.
The kits can be administered at home, and are available Saturday, Oct. 16 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Magic Mountain parking lot in Moncton, Perth-Andover Middle School in Perth-Andover, and Town Hall in Grand Falls.
One kit has five tests to be used over a 10-day period. Anyone 16 and under must be accompanied by an adult to acquire a testing kit.
Although the program is starting in the circuit breaker areas, officials say it will be expanded across the province.
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