Note: After weekly updates throughout 2022, this page is no longer being updated. The following charts are a record of Nova Scotia’s COVID activity for the year; for the latest numbers in 2023 go to this page.
In the beginning—Nova Scotia’s first cases of COVID-19 were reported on March 15, 2020—the province was diligent about sharing pandemic information with the public. Every 24 hours the province would collect the latest information, write the numbers into a report, then actively push that report out to the public via press release. For the longest while, even when the disease slowed down, the province’s reporting didn’t. On July 23, 2021, the province started taking weekends off, but remained committed to keeping the public informed with five reports per week.
Then a new political leader took over, and it became clear pretty quickly that he was committed to pretending the pandemic was over. It was as if he wanted Nova Scotians to stop caring about their own health and start caring about the economy instead, going out to eat and shop and travel like the before times. So, on March 10, 2022, the province reduced its COVID reporting to one press release per week. A few months later, on July 4, it switched to one report a month. This decline in reporting happened even after the disease mutated into the highly transmissible omicron form, and infections and deaths increased to unprecedented levels in Nova Scotia.
Luckily the province is maintaining its COVID data dashboard. This public source of information is updated on Thursdays, but its information isn’t actively pushed out to Nova Scotians by provincial communications professionals. So The Coast created this page of 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 graph when the dashboard updates.
The page is broken into two sections: Graphs dating back only to the start of 2022, which give the recent context since omicron’s arrival in late 2021, and graphs dating to March 2020 for the full pandemic picture.
2022 COVID statistics in Nova Scotia
INFECTIONS
DEATHS
HOSPITALIZATIONS
It was only in early January 2022 that the provincial press releases started reporting the number of COVID patients admitted to hospital each week. This chart has no pandemic-wide equivalent below.
Nova Scotia’s entire pandemic by the numbers
AVERAGE INFECTIONS
WEEKLY DEATHS
TOTAL DEATHS
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This article appears in Jul 1-31, 2022.
ever since Houston won the election by making false promises he knew the people wanted help with he has not carried out any of the 2 major promises in Health and Education… he then politized the pandemic taking control from the medical professionals. we only hear now once a week so he is trying to pretend it does not exist. How can he not care or is his incompetence too much to handle the situation. Wanted the job but not the responsibilities so will be gone next election.,
I have always wondered about the “ covid deaths “ number and have never seen a clear definition ie. is it the number of deaths directly attributed to covid infection or does it also include those you simply tested positive after being hit by a bus or other fatal misfortune ? Massive difference! Could almost be cosidered misinformation if the later is true imho.
Infections are down, deaths are down, but hospitalizations are up a bit. Stop being alarmist, time to to.just cautiously move on.
There doesn’t seem to be a break down of those that are vaccinated, boosted etc. The average age of those dying seems to be in the 70’s plus and I would assume that most of these people have been vaccinated???
Agree with Karen. We need to know about vaccination status. Some months back they stopped publishing it in the Chronicle Herald, feeding the the paranoia of antivaxxers.
If you look at the death rates over a 3 year period it looks like more people are dying of covid then ever before and since most of the deaths are people over 70, I would presume that most are fully vaccinated.