The province is reporting 133 new cases on Sunday. Although this is a drop from the one-day record high of 148 cases announced Saturday, new infections are spread more widely across the province today: According to our location table at the bottom of this post, 10 of Nova Scotia’s 14 community health networks have new […]
Kyle Shaw
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Kyle was a founding member of the newspaper in 1993 and was the paper’s first publisher. Kyle occasionally teaches creative nonfiction writing (think magazine-style #longreads) and copy editing at the University of King’s College School of Journalism.
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148 new cases including 2 nursing home residents May 1
Staff at several long-term care facilities have been diagnosed with COVID-19 during the current rising third wave of infections, including a worker at Northwood, raising fears from the worst part of Nova Scotia’s first wave. But no nursing home residents tested positive in the third wave—until now. “Two new cases in Central Zone are residents […]
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67 new cases might be the tip of the iceberg on April 30
Today’s COVID-19 report from the province doesn’t just announce the same old stuff like new cases (67, down from yesterday), hospitalizations (22 in hospital, five of those in ICU, both numbers up from yesterday) and active cases (589, another record high). Today’s report also conclusively proves the adage that it’s possible to have too much […]
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70 new cases and 300,000 vaccinations April 29
Nova Scotia is announcing 70 new infections today. It’s a number that would have seemed huge at the beginning of April, but that’s actually down from the 75 yesterday and the current pandemic maximum of 96 new cases reported Tuesday, the day before. Eleven people recovered from their COVID-19 infections since yesterday, compared to those […]
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With 75 new cases NS is at a record 489 active cases April 28
There’s not much reason to celebrate when the province announces 75 new cases, the second-most infections it’s had in one day. And when the active caseload reaches a new pandemic provincial high of 489 cases, beating the mark of 466 set during the first wave in April 2020. And when two of the new cases […]
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Say hello to the giant floating unicorn Halifax needs right now
“We wanted something that would make people say, ‘Holy shit, that looks fun.’” Dave Wolpin is talking about the inspiration behind his new venture, a floating playground that will open mid-June—COVID willing—on First Lake beside the Sackville Community Arena. Called Splashifax, it’s part bouncy obstacle course, part swimmy summer hangout, part home to the world’s […]
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96 new cases and Nova Scotia gets locked down April 27
Yesterday the province set a new record for daily infections with 66, closed public schools in Halifax and put new limits on retail and restaurants in the rest of Nova Scotia. Yesterday was just a warm-up act. Today the province is reporting 96 new cases. That’s the most in Nova Scotia in one day by […]
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66 new infections push active cases over 300 on April 26
For the tenth day in a row, the number of active COVID-19 cases across the province has gone up. For the second day in a row, the current surge of infections has set a new record for most new cases in a day. This is the situation on the fourth day of lockdown in Nova […]
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Nova Scotia raises its infection record with 63 new cases April 25
Three days into the “circuit breaker” lockdown of Halifax and surrounding areas, this stupid disease’s circuits don’t seem broken at all. Sure, chief medical officer of health Robert Strang has been warning us that case numbers would probably keep rising even after human movement got curtailed, but it still sucks to see the virus setting […]
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Nova Scotia passes 2,000 cases Sunday, April 25
With 52 new cases yesterday, Nova Scotia reached a total of 1,990 COVID-19 infections during the pandemic. Getting 10 more cases will push the province to the 2,000-case milestone, and the way the virus is currently surging—the average is 27 new cases per day in the last week—that is almost certain to happen today. (Update: […]
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52 new cases and 201 active cases Saturday, April 24
On the second day of the Halifax lockdown cases keep climbing, as the province is reporting 52 new COVID-19 infections today. That’s the second-highest daily total of Nova Scotia’s pandemic—the highest being 55 cases on April 23, 2020 in the heart of the first wave. Just one patient has recovered since yesterday’s report, so Nova […]
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44 new cases as the Halifax lockdown starts April 23
The last time the province implemented a “circuit breaker” lockdown was in February. Over a few days case numbers crept upward and then spiked—all the way up to 10 new cases in a single day! Newly elected premier Iain Rankin and chief medical officer of health Robert Strang took fast and decisive action, immediately imposing […]