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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News updates and questions answered what you need to know about coronavirus COVID-19 virus pandemic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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The new COVID restrictions: What’s considered essential in Nova Scotia
On Tuesday, with 96 new cases bringing the province to a total of 419 active COVID-19 infections, Nova Scotia locked down. Not only does the rest of the province join Halifax, which went into lockdown Friday, but the restrictions are getting tighter. “We are in a race between the variant and the vaccine,” said doctor […]
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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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If you’ve maybe been exposed you’ll most likely have to isolate until you get your test result
A Coast analysis of the Nova Scotia Health Authority’s “Potential COVID Exposures” site shows a major change over the last week in what Nova Scotians should do if they might have crossed paths with the disease. On April 19, only six percent of exposure sites recommended those who’d been there self-isolate while waiting for their […]
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Proceed with caution: contact tracing has slowed
As COVID-19 cases increase in the province, so grows the Nova Scotia Health Authority’s list of “Potential COVID Exposures”—gyms, restaurants, stores and other places visited by someone who later tested positive for the disease. And a longer list of exposure sites means a longer list of people who were at those places and need to […]
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Short-staffed and with sick students, Halifax schools close for two weeks
In the past seven days, there have been 30 cases connected to schools in Nova Scotia. That’s more than in the previous five months, so a junior high math student could figure out there’s a growing COVID-19 problem in the school system. Sure enough, with 323 active cases in the province, most of those—266 to […]
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Where to get a COVID test this week (April 26-30)
Note: This article is old. For more current info, read our latest ‘Where to Get Tested’ article. Covid-19 cases in Nova Scotia are climbing exponentially, reaching 323 active cases in the province as of Monday, April 26. Here’s where testing is available this week in HRM and beyond, so you can do your part to […]
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Schools with COVID-19 cases in Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia’s school system was already on its standard March break when the first wave hit in winter 2020, and the lockdown restrictions meant students never returned to the classroom that school year. Remote learning went so well, that the second wave of COVID-19 infections brought a new commitment from government to keep schools open […]
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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 […]