This week in Nova Scotia, the number of reported COVID cases is still on a downtrend. A total of 5,436 new cases were diagnosed by PCR testing between April 19 and 25, for an average of 777 per day. Compared to last week’s 1,072 cases per day, that’s a big drop, and a continuation of […]
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Nova Scotia “may have hit the peak” of current COVID wave
Nova Scotia’s latest COVID report came out on Thursday as usual. It covers a full seven days of disease activity in the province, unlike last week’s report that was only for six days. The change last week was needed to get the province on a better reporting cycle (the seven days from Tuesday to Monday, […]
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COVID keeps rising in Nova Scotia while pandemic info from the province is falling
The last time Nova Scotia issued its weekly COVID update, we discussed the two big things the report revealed. First, infections are up to the highest level of the whole pandemic. Second, it’s hard to make good comparisons of disease data when the province switches around the way it reports information. That was for the […]
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Nova Scotia just reported its most new COVID cases of the entire pandemic
Does everyone you know have COVID? It certainly feels like everyone has it. And given the latest pandemic numbers released by the province yesterday, there’s good reason for that feeling. During the entire pandemic, now into its third year, Nova Scotia has never had as many new cases reported as right now. Because the government […]
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With COVID infections at a new high in NS, Strang stresses personal responsibility
Nova Scotia’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. Robert Strang, held a Zoom briefing Thursday afternoon, April 7. It was originally supposed to be for media only, as a note from the province yesterday morning at 8:40 reiterated. But within three hours another email came from the province to say now the session would be […]
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Premier Houston’s bizarre new COVID video annotated by Twitter
Wednesday morning, the Nova Scotia government’s Twitter account released a two-minute video of premier Tim Houston and chief medical officer of health Dr. Robert Strang. Houston’s come under a lot of criticism lately for his handling of COVID, particularly because the government dropped most public health rules and stopped giving daily updates about the disease, […]
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Nova Scotia now has almost no COVID rules, but masks are still mandatory in schools
At one minute after midnight this morning, Monday, March 21, Nova Scotia removed almost all of its COVID-19 restrictions. Yesterday, it was illegal for more than 25 people to hang out together indoors; today there is no gathering limit. Last week, people in line at the grocery store had to stand two metres apart; today […]
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We asked Coast readers how the pandemic changed their lives
It’s been two years—730 bizarre days—since everything changed in Nova Scotia. When the province’s first presumptive cases of COVID-19 were announced on March 15, 2020, we collectively and immediately had to figure out isolation, masking and altering our lives to avoid an entirely new health risk. We were introduced to new anxieties, new losses and […]
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Nova Scotia’s COVID-19 pandemic at 2 years old
Sunday, March 15, 2020, the provincial government’s media briefing room in downtown Halifax was packed with journalists and TV cameras. This was before social distancing and gathering limits. Before masks. It was even before COVID-19 had officially arrived in Nova Scotia—this press conference would be the disease’s coming out. True to the Shakespearean warning, Dr. […]
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COVID cases, hospitalizations and news for Nova Scotia the week Feb 21-27
Like the province, The Coast is admitting to omicron overwhelm. We are switching to bare-bones daily reports, while aiming to maintain the vital infographics that give the best picture of the current situation: NS COVID deaths Omicron hospitalizations New and active cases Nova Scotia’s third and fourth waves Canada’s fourth wave […]
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No masks, no limits, no POV as Nova Scotia lifting all COVID restrictions March 21
Nova Scotia just put its three-phase reopening plan on a fast track. Instead of the previously planned phases that were “expected to last about a month” each—taking us from the February 14 start of phase one until phase three sometime in April—we’ll now hit phase three on March 21. “The restrictions put in place during […]
