Zero new cases in Nova Scotia today, according to the province’s daily COVID-19 report. None, not one. But five people with C19 recovered since the last report, making this a very good Monday for the humans. The disease, on the other hand, can suck it. The last zero day was Friday, February 12. Between then […]
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2 new cases March 7
The province is reporting two new cases of COVID-19, both in the Central health zone, on a straightforward Sunday. “One is related to travel outside Atlantic Canada. The person is self-isolating, as required,” says the province’s report to media. “The other case is a close contact of a previously reported case.” With two patients recovering […]
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6 cases but none of them particularly scary on March 6
There are six new COVID-19 infections in the province today, the most since the 10 cases reported Friday, February 26, which made Strankin implement the circuit breaker lockdown. But this six-case spike comes the day after lockdown ended early. Did the lockdown stop too soon? Should we be worried? “The case count is a little […]
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2 new cases March 5 in Nova Scotia’s emergency year
Nova Scotia’s first-ever COVID-19 cases were announced March 15, 2020. One week later, then-premier Stephen McNeil declared an official state of emergency. An SOE stays in effect for two weeks, unless cancelled early or extended longer. McNeil extended it every chance he got, including the just-passed February 21, days before he left office. With the […]
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3 new cases plus 1 more person in hospital March 4
The same day doctor Strang and premier Rankin end the lockdown early, more Nova Scotians recover from COVID-19 than get infected. It’s like the disease is supporting Strankin’s decision. Which might be a nice gesture if C19 wasn’t otherwise horrible in every possible way. There are three new cases, all in Central zone, only one […]
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Strankin ends 1-month Halifax lockdown after a week
It was just last Tuesday, February 23, that Iain Rankin was sworn in as premier, and he gave his debut public COVID-19 briefing the next day, taking former premier Stephen McNeil’s place beside chief medical officer of health Robert Strang. Nova Scotia’s new pandemic power duo didn’t announce any major changes at that first briefing, […]
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Nova Scotia’s vaccine rollout continues to have technical difficulties
Nova Scotia’s COVID-19 plan is a hot topic of conversation. Who will get it, where, when and how? So it’s not surprising that when the vaccine registration website went live earlier this week for people 80+, a lot of people wanted to test it out. But somehow the province was surprised. On day one, the […]
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UPDATED: Why the Halifax lockdown got lifted early
Update March 4: Today the province did indeed lift the lockdown, a full three weeks early, making the following article more pertinent even as it becomes out of date. Get the deets on what happened in our story about the restrictions ending. Update March 8: The original headline on this story was “Why the Halifax […]
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3 new cases and another testing record March 3 🏆
The province is reporting three new infections today, one in the Northern health zone and two in Central, all of them people who are closely connected with other COVID-19 patients. Three new cases is higher than the last two days, which each had only one case, but it’s still low enough to earn praise from […]
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1 new case, more variants and hospitalizations March 2
Tuesday brings good news in terms of new COVID-19 cases, testing and recoveries, but bad news for patients getting admitted to the hospital and virus variants. Let’s start with the good news, because we can. For the second day in a row, Nova Scotia is reporting only one new C19 infection. “The case is in […]
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1 new, 35 active cases on Monday, March 1
The province is announcing just one new COVID-19 case today. “The case is in Central Zone and is a close contact of a previously reported case,” says the C19 update to media. Four previously infected people have recovered since yesterday, bringing Nova Scotia down to 35 active cases. Two of those are patients in the […]
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COVID-19 cases and news for the March 1 week
NOTE: For the very latest news about COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, please go to The Coast’s main C19 coverage. Click for mobile-friendlier version of graph. Monday, March 1 Our latest variant Just like this miserable virus, our COVID-19 coverage has been mutating over the past year, in hopes of becoming easier for people to absorb […]