Daily Cases

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 […]

UPDATE March 13: The Saturday, March 13 case report includes the remarkable news that the new case announced Friday doesn’t count as a Nova Scotian case, because the patient had previously gotten a C19 diagnosis in another province. We’ve updated the map and headline associated with this piece, which used to be “1 case in […]

Nova Scotia delivers a simple message for the coronavirus today: You suck! 🖕 The daily COVID-19 status report to media shows zero new cases of the disease, five people recovering from it so their cases are closed, one patient getting out of hospital and just one C19 patient sick enough to be in the hospital […]

The humans beat the virus today, with Nova Scotia reporting three recoveries and a trifling one new COVID-19 case. That fresh infection is connected to “travel outside Atlantic Canada” in the reassuring phrasing of the provincial press release, and the patient “is self-isolating, as required.” “Again, our case count is remaining low—no cases Monday, five […]

Nova Scotia’s legislature is finally sitting today under new premier Iain Rankin, after former premier Stephen McNeil couldn’t be bothered getting the house back to work for the entirety of the pandemic. (McNeil’s bullshit one-day opening in December absolutely doesn’t count as democracy in action.) Unfortunately the coronavirus is back to work, too, after taking […]

Zero new cases in Nova Scotia today, according to the province’s daily COVID-19 report. None, not one. But five people with C19 recovered since the last report, making this a very good Monday for the humans. The disease, on the other hand, can suck it. The last zero day was Friday, February 12. Between then […]

The province is reporting two new cases of COVID-19, both in the Central health zone, on a straightforward Sunday. “One is related to travel outside Atlantic Canada. The person is self-isolating, as required,” says the province’s report to media. “The other case is a close contact of a previously reported case.” With two patients recovering […]

There are six new COVID-19 infections in the province today, the most since the 10 cases reported Friday, February 26, which made Strankin implement the circuit breaker lockdown. But this six-case spike comes the day after lockdown ended early. Did the lockdown stop too soon? Should we be worried? “The case count is a little […]

Nova Scotia’s first-ever COVID-19 cases were announced March 15, 2020. One week later, then-premier Stephen McNeil declared an official state of emergency. An SOE stays in effect for two weeks, unless cancelled early or extended longer. McNeil extended it every chance he got, including the just-passed February 21, days before he left office. With the […]

The same day doctor Strang and premier Rankin end the lockdown early, more Nova Scotians recover from COVID-19 than get infected. It’s like the disease is supporting Strankin’s decision. Which might be a nice gesture if C19 wasn’t otherwise horrible in every possible way. There are three new cases, all in Central zone, only one […]