Remember the days of MySpace—where you picked your top friends to list on your profile page? Now it’s real life, except instead of your profile, you have to pick your personal COVID-19 bubble. For “western HRM,” once the clock strikes 12:01 on Monday, November 23, a resident’s bubble—the people you don’t have to socially distance […]
COVID-19
News updates and questions answered what you need to know about coronavirus COVID-19 virus pandemic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
COVID-19 news for the November 16 week
NOTE: This week is now over. For the very latest news, please go here. But for an informative look back at exactly how Nova Scotia responded to COVID-19 in realtime, keep on reading. Click for mobile-friendlier version of graph. Editor’s note: In its 28 years The Coast has never been a just-the-facts news service, but […]
The government still hasn’t made contact tracing mandatory
Editor’s Note: As of Monday, November 23, contact tracing will be mandatory in Nova Scotia. Read more here. I n the past two weeks, Halifax has been warned of a slew of potential COVID-19 exposures at local bars and restaurants—from Montana’s in Bayer’s Lake to Gahan House in the Nova Centre to The Bitter End […]
COVID-19 news for the November 9 week
NOTE: This week is now over. For the very latest news, please go here. But for an informative look back at exactly how Nova Scotia responded to COVID-19 in realtime, keep on reading. Click for mobile-friendlier version of graph. Editor’s note: In its 28 years The Coast has never been a just-the-facts news service, but […]
COVID-19 news for the November 2 week
NOTE: This week is now over. For the very latest news, please go here. But for an informative look back at exactly how Nova Scotia responded to COVID-19 in realtime, keep on reading. Click for mobile version of graph. Editor’s note: In its 28 years The Coast has never been a just-the-facts news service, but […]
Legendary
We didn’t set out to produce a daily map of C19 in Nova Scotia, but once the provincial government did, we just had to. That’s because the province’s map reflects the province’s stingy approach to sharing any coronavirus information, and even amateur cartographers like us can do a better job. A simple colour-coding system is […]
COVID-19 news for the October 26 week
NOTE: This week is now over. For the very latest news, please go here. But for an informative look back at exactly how Nova Scotia responded to COVID-19 in realtime, keep on reading. Display problems with The Coast’s Nova Scotia COVID-19 case graph? For the mobile version click here. Editor’s note: In its 28 years […]
COVID-19 news in Nova Scotia, for the week starting October 19
NOTE: This week is now over. For the very latest news, please go here. But for an informative look back at exactly how Nova Scotia responded to COVID-19 in realtime, keep on reading. Display problems with The Coast’s Nova Scotia COVID-19 case graph? For the mobile version click here. Editor’s note: In its 28 years […]
COVID-19 news in Nova Scotia, for the week starting October 12
NOTE: This week is now over. For the very latest news, please go here. But for an informative look back at exactly how Nova Scotia responded to COVID-19 in realtime, keep on reading. Display problems with The Coast’s Nova Scotia COVID-19 case graph? For the mobile version click here. Editor’s note: In its 28 years […]
Outside the Atlantic bubble the outbreak is the worst it’s ever been
Update Thursday, October 8: When this story was published yesterday, the then-current national COVID-19 numbers showed a record high of 24,640 cases diagnosed in the west of Canada over the past 14 days. Today we are sad to report that the latest numbers are pushing the record even higher, to 25,335 cases in two weeks. […]
COVID-19 news in Nova Scotia, for the week starting October 5
NOTE: This week is now over. For the very latest news, please go here. But for an informative look back at exactly how Nova Scotia responded to COVID-19 in realtime, keep on reading. Display problems with The Coast’s Nova Scotia COVID-19 case graph? For the mobile version click here. Editor’s note: In its 28 years […]
COVID-19 news in Nova Scotia, for the week starting September 28
NOTE: This week is now over. For the very latest news, please go here. But for an informative look back at exactly how Nova Scotia responded to COVID-19 in realtime, keep on reading. Display problems with The Coast’s Nova Scotia COVID-19 case graph? For the mobile version click here. Editor’s note: In its 28 years […]

