After four days in a row of more coronavirus infections in Nova Scotia than patients recovering, the humans are fighting back. Today’s daily COVID-19 update is announcing three new cases, but there are five recoveries. This is the first win for the humans in April, and with any luck it won’t be the last. There […]
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7 new cases April 4 to make the long weekend longer
For the fourth day in a row, Nova Scotia is reporting more fresh infections than patients recovering, adding a hint of dread to the gloomy Sunday weather and making the holiday long weekend feel like it’s dragging on even longer. There are seven new cases in the province, across three health zones, compared to five […]
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9 new cases on holiday Friday, April 2
Even if you have the day off this Friday of the Easter long weekend, COVID-19 doesn’t. The province is announcing nine new infections in today’s C19 report, the most in a day since the 10-case Friday, February 26, which triggered a one-week lockdown. Related “Five cases are in Western Zone and four cases are in […]
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3 cases of that foolish disease Thursday, April 1
This is the second April Fool’s Day of the pandemic, and it’s still #toosoon for any wannabe hilarity. Top doc Robert Strang could prank us by tweeting that a new deadly variant was loose in Nova Scotia, or that the vaccine program was suddenly open to people of any age—so ridiculous 🤣—but when creating mass […]
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2 new cases March 31 as the humans win the month
Thursday has two new COVID-19 infections, another confirmation that the B117 variant is here and a milestone of 100,000 vaccinations.
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3 new cases March 30
In its daily COVID-19 update, the province is reporting three new cases. “One case is in Central Zone and is a close contact of a previously reported case,” the province says. “Another case is in Northern Zone and is currently under investigation. The other case is in Eastern Zone and is related to travel outside […]
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0 new cases Monday, March 29. Take that, C19!
Monday is a good day in Nova Scotia’s pandemic. After getting at least one new case every day for the last 13 straight days, today brings no new cases. Not one. The zero day is reported in today’s provincial update. A single person recovered from the disease since yesterday’s update, to go with nobody new […]
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A COVID-19 death is Nova Scotia’s first in 6+ months
The past few months of Covid have actually been pretty good in Nova Scotia. We’ve had some COVID-19 scares, but also got to relax. There have been cases in schools, but for the most part the school system has been open, a feat that’s rare in North America. Lockdowns have come, lockdowns have gone. The […]
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2 new cases on a quiet St. Patrick’s Day
“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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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 […]
