“Nova Scotians have made changes to their daily lives to limit the spread of COVID-19 and it’s no different for St. Patrick’s Day,” says premier Iain Rankin in today’s provincial pandemic press release. “We have been fortunate to have little to no new cases recently, but we know that the virus can quickly find its […]
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Almost 300 people in HRM shelters will get vaccinated next month
On March 16, premier Iain Rankin announced that hundreds of vaccines will soon be going to people staying in shelters in HRM. “We’ll be providing vaccine early April to about 300 people in the Halifax area who are in homeless shelters,” he said at Tuesday’s regular COVID-19 briefing with top doc Robert Strang. “We’ll also […]
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2 cases, 2 ICU patients and 4 variant cases found March 16
The province is reporting two new COVID-19 infections today. “The cases are in Central Zone,” says the daily pandemic press release. “One of the cases is a close contact of a previously reported case. The other case is under investigation.” As our handy table of case activity at the bottom of this update reveals, both […]
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For the ideal anniversary of COVID-19’s official arrival in Nova Scotia, a day free of cases
“Disaster anniversaries are powerful in part because they’re communal,” writes Jacob Stern in The Atlantic. “The bomb went off in an instant. The tornado tore through town in an afternoon. The earthquake rocked the whole region at once. The pandemic, though, did not come to everyone on the same day, or even in the same […]
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1 case added and 1 case removed Sunday March 14
Yesterdays’ chaos didn’t end yesterday. The province is announcing one new COVID-19 case in the official update today, and it’s deleting one of the cases announced Saturday because somebody typed the wrong thing. If only this latest Saturday mistake could be blamed on losing an hour of sleep because daylight savings time’s return caused clocks […]
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UPDATED: 5 or so cases and a bizarre false positive March 13
Update March 14: Apparently when you’re aiming to create chaos, there’s no such thing as too much. Below is our story about two chaotic things the province did on Saturday, but we should have guessed there was a third brewing. In the Sunday, March 14 C19 update, the province explains that the “case reported in […]
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UPDATED: It turns out there were 0 cases March 12
UPDATE March 13: The Saturday, March 13 case report includes the remarkable news that the new case announced Friday doesn’t count as a Nova Scotian case, because the patient had previously gotten a C19 diagnosis in another province. We’ve updated the map and headline associated with this piece, which used to be “1 case in […]
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How to sign up for your COVID-19 vaccine
Nova Scotia’s general vaccination program is already underway–some people aged 80 and up started getting shots this week–but it’s really ramping up the March 15 week, with thousands more people becoming eligible and a whole new vaccine coming into play. And like Alexander Hamilton, Nova Scotia’s chief medical officer of health Robert Strang doesn’t want […]
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0 cases and a vax record Thursday March 11
Nova Scotia delivers a simple message for the coronavirus today: You suck! 🖕 The daily COVID-19 status report to media shows zero new cases of the disease, five people recovering from it so their cases are closed, one patient getting out of hospital and just one C19 patient sick enough to be in the hospital […]
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Strankin hints at the return of the Maritime Bubble
At the COVID-19 press conference on Tuesday, March 9, premier Iain Rankin spoke words that haven’t been uttered in a few months: “Atlantic Bubble.” And Rankin didn’t bring it up because he was asked by a reporter–he mentioned the bubble of his own accord during his opening statement. “I will be having a discussion […]
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Only 1 case March 10
The humans beat the virus today, with Nova Scotia reporting three recoveries and a trifling one new COVID-19 case. That fresh infection is connected to “travel outside Atlantic Canada” in the reassuring phrasing of the provincial press release, and the patient “is self-isolating, as required.” “Again, our case count is remaining low—no cases Monday, five […]
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5 new cases and a patient gets out of the hospital March 9
Nova Scotia’s legislature is finally sitting today under new premier Iain Rankin, after former premier Stephen McNeil couldn’t be bothered getting the house back to work for the entirety of the pandemic. (McNeil’s bullshit one-day opening in December absolutely doesn’t count as democracy in action.) Unfortunately the coronavirus is back to work, too, after taking […]
