NOTE: This day is now over. Click for the latest on COVID-19 from The Coast. Or for an informative look back at Nova Scotia’s evolving pandemic response, keep on reading. Testing back to normal Nova Scotians apparently love COVID tests. Earlier in the third wave we were getting so many tests that we overloaded the […]
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COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia on Fri, May 14
NOTE: This day is now over. Click for the latest on COVID-19 from The Coast. Or for an informative look back at Nova Scotia’s evolving pandemic response, keep on reading. Anti-vaccine protests shut down Friday, May 14, 2021 New cases 117 New recoveries 151 New deaths 1 Active cases 1,572 Days in a row with […]
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COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia on Thursday, May 13
NOTE: This day is now over. Click for the latest on COVID-19 from The Coast. Or for an informative look back at Nova Scotia’s evolving pandemic response, keep on reading. Active cases drop as stress mounts on the hospital system The daily COVID case report from the province says there are 110 new cases today, […]
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Backlog bewilderment
I t was almost two weeks ago, on Friday, April 30, that news of a backlog first made its way to the daily COVID-19 update. At the time, public health top doc Robert Strang said Nova Scotians had turned out for testing in such high numbers, there was a slowdown in processing them. “Because of […]
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COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia on Wed, May 12
NOTE: This day is now over. Click for the latest on COVID-19 from The Coast. Or for an informative look back at Nova Scotia’s evolving pandemic response, keep on reading. 149 new cases as the active caseload increases again Wednesday, May 12, 2021 New cases 149 New recoveries 119 Active cases 1,621 Days in a […]
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COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia on Tue, May 11
NOTE: This day is now over. Click for the latest on COVID-19 from The Coast. Or for an informative look back at Nova Scotia’s evolving pandemic response, keep on reading. Today’s map of community cases The active caseload finally goes down Every day for the last 24 days, the number of new C19 infections has […]
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4,000 cases, 3 waves, 1 chart
Nova Scotia’s pandemic started in 2020 with an intense first wave of infections, then its settled down so much that the second wave in December was more like a ripple. But things changed again, and a massive third COVID wave arrived in April. It took the disease 407 days—more than a year—to infect 2,000 Nova […]
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165 new cases and 77 people recovered May 9
Nova Scotia’s COVID-19 caseload increases for the 23rd straight day today, as the province reports 165 new infections and only 77 resolved cases. “There are 138 cases in Central Zone, 16 in Eastern Zone, six in Western Zone and five in Northern Zone,” says the daily disease update. Currently the province has 1,627 active […]
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163 new cases and 1 death Saturday, May 8
For the second day in a row, a Nova Scotian has died from COVID-19. The province reported the death—a man in his 70s in the Central health zone—in Saturday’s COVID update. This is Nova Scotia’s 71st death from the disease. Saturday, May 8, 2021 New cases 163 New deaths 1 New recoveries 88 Active […]
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A tighter lockdown and 227 new cases arrive May 7
Today Nova Scotia announced 227 new cases of COVID-19, a grim provincial record that spawned two more, as the caseload rose for the record 21st straight day to a record 1,464 active cases. Five more people entered the hospital since yesterday, for a total of 50 patients, and one person—a woman in her 70s in […]
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182 new cases including 2 in long-term care on May 6
Another day, another set of record-breaking numbers from this stupid virus. The province is reporting 182 new COVID-19 infections today—155 in the Nova Scotia Health Authority’s Central zone, 16 in the Eastern zone, seven in Northern and four Western—the highest single-day total ever among Atlantic Canadian provinces. Thursday, May 6, 2021 New cases 182 New […]
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175 new cases on May 5, day 8 of the NS lockdown
On hump day in Nova Scotia, COVID-19 infections reach a new peak: 175 new daily cases push the caseload to 1,203 active cases, both record highs. Wednesday, May 5, 2021 New cases 175 New recoveries 32 Active cases 1,203 Days in a row with cases 37 Total cases in Nova Scotia during pandemic 3,182 Halifax’s […]
