Staff at several long-term care facilities have been diagnosed with COVID-19 during the current rising third wave of infections, including a worker at Northwood, raising fears from the worst part of Nova Scotia’s first wave. But no nursing home residents tested positive in the third wave—until now. “Two new cases in Central Zone are residents […]
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Nova Scotia has 45,000 backlogged COVID-19 tests
This week, Nova Scotians turned out for COVID-19 tests in record numbers. So much so, in fact, they’ve overwhelmed the testing system. “Thousands and thousands of Nova Scotians have done what we have asked—get tested,” said chief medical officer of health doctor Robert Strang at the C19 briefing on Friday, April 30. As a result, […]
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70 new cases and 300,000 vaccinations April 29
Nova Scotia is announcing 70 new infections today. It’s a number that would have seemed huge at the beginning of April, but that’s actually down from the 75 yesterday and the current pandemic maximum of 96 new cases reported Tuesday, the day before. Eleven people recovered from their COVID-19 infections since yesterday, compared to those […]
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With 75 new cases NS is at a record 489 active cases April 28
There’s not much reason to celebrate when the province announces 75 new cases, the second-most infections it’s had in one day. And when the active caseload reaches a new pandemic provincial high of 489 cases, beating the mark of 466 set during the first wave in April 2020. And when two of the new cases […]
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96 new cases and Nova Scotia gets locked down April 27
Yesterday the province set a new record for daily infections with 66, closed public schools in Halifax and put new limits on retail and restaurants in the rest of Nova Scotia. Yesterday was just a warm-up act. Today the province is reporting 96 new cases. That’s the most in Nova Scotia in one day by […]
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The new COVID restrictions: What’s considered essential in Nova Scotia
On Tuesday, with 96 new cases bringing the province to a total of 419 active COVID-19 infections, Nova Scotia locked down. Not only does the rest of the province join Halifax, which went into lockdown Friday, but the restrictions are getting tighter. “We are in a race between the variant and the vaccine,” said doctor […]
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66 new infections push active cases over 300 on April 26
For the tenth day in a row, the number of active COVID-19 cases across the province has gone up. For the second day in a row, the current surge of infections has set a new record for most new cases in a day. This is the situation on the fourth day of lockdown in Nova […]
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Nova Scotia raises its infection record with 63 new cases April 25
Three days into the “circuit breaker” lockdown of Halifax and surrounding areas, this stupid disease’s circuits don’t seem broken at all. Sure, chief medical officer of health Robert Strang has been warning us that case numbers would probably keep rising even after human movement got curtailed, but it still sucks to see the virus setting […]
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Nova Scotia passes 2,000 cases Sunday, April 25
With 52 new cases yesterday, Nova Scotia reached a total of 1,990 COVID-19 infections during the pandemic. Getting 10 more cases will push the province to the 2,000-case milestone, and the way the virus is currently surging—the average is 27 new cases per day in the last week—that is almost certain to happen today. (Update: […]
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52 new cases and 201 active cases Saturday, April 24
On the second day of the Halifax lockdown cases keep climbing, as the province is reporting 52 new COVID-19 infections today. That’s the second-highest daily total of Nova Scotia’s pandemic—the highest being 55 cases on April 23, 2020 in the heart of the first wave. Just one patient has recovered since yesterday’s report, so Nova […]
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44 new cases as the Halifax lockdown starts April 23
The last time the province implemented a “circuit breaker” lockdown was in February. Over a few days case numbers crept upward and then spiked—all the way up to 10 new cases in a single day! Newly elected premier Iain Rankin and chief medical officer of health Robert Strang took fast and decisive action, immediately imposing […]
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Halifax goes back into lockdown to fight community spread
“T here’s community spread in Halifax Regional Municipality,” premier Iain Rankin said at a COVID-19 briefing Thursday afternoon with chief medical officer of health Robert Strang. Confirming that the recent surge of infections means COVID’s third wave has hit Nova Scotia, Strankin announced a “circuit breaker” lockdown for HRM and surrounding areas that comes into […]
