The omicron variant arrived in Nova Scotia at the end of 2021—Dec. 8 by the province’s official count—making 2022 the first full year of the omicron COVID pandemic. 2023 will be the second, unless either the disease officially becomes endemic, or a new variant becomes dominant (Kraken is an omicron variant, but China’s infection hotbed could conceivably produce a whole new strain). No matter what happens, this page will track Nova Scotia’s 2023 pandemic numbers as reported at its COVID data dashboard.
The Coast created the following infographics to make the info more accessible—easy to find, easy to understand (hopefully), easy to see in the full pandemic context. We’ll update these charts and graphs when the dashboard updates, which is usually weekly on Thursdays. The page is broken into two sections: Graphs dating back only to the start of 2023, and graphs dating to March 2020 for the full pandemic picture. For further reference, click here for the 2022 version of this page and its charts.
2023 COVID statistics for Nova Scotia
INFECTIONS IN 2023
DEATHS IN 2023
HOSPITALIZATIONS IN 2023
Nova Scotia’s entire pandemic by the numbers
AVERAGE INFECTIONS
WEEKLY DEATHS
TOTAL DEATHS
TOTAL HOSPITALIZATIONS
This chart doesn’t go all the way back to 2020 because the province only started reporting the number of COVID patients admitted to hospital each week in 2022.
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This article appears in Jan 1-31, 2023.
This is excellent information; thank you for compiling and contextualizing it like this. It would be great to track Covid against other things such as influenza, etc… I would love to better understand how Covid compares to other comparable conditions/diseases as it’s now something we have to “live with.” Maybe this data exists somewhere, but The Coast has a knack for explaining things really well.
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excellent work.Thank you.
Thanks for posting covid numbers, its very important and seams to be now forgotten about!
cracka : Covid deaths would not even show up on a graph next to deaths from Heart Disease or Cancer. It is a non-issue. Only fear-mongering keeps people afraid of covid. You can Google these numbers and you will be blown away by how few people actually died from covid (about 9,000 per year) compared to Cancer (80,000) or Heart Disease (same). Check for yourself, if you don’t believe me.
This is information is a waste of time. Total new cases lol those numbers are probably the total amount of people who still test and report. It’s a new flu. Time to move on. There’s bigger issues at hand. Mental health, addiction, suicide rates are at a all time high. The Housing crisis is terrifying. I’m sorry but this new flu should be nowhere near considered an issue anymore. I’ve had worse flues in my life than covid and I wasn’t vaxed. I had H1N1 and it was worse for me than covid. My immune system is crap so from what everyone said throughout covid I should be dead but I was sick for 3 days and it was tolerable. I lost my sense of smell for 1.5 weeks. Everything tasted like vanilla ice cream lol let’s move on shall we