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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2 cases and a warning for King’s Wharf on March 28
The province is announcing two new COVID-19 infections in its daily pandemic update. “The cases are both in the Central Zone,” the province says. “One is related to travel and the other is under investigation.” A case under investigation is always a drag. Also a drag in this report, a person with C19 had to […]
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5 cases and 7 recoveries—the humans win Saturday 🏆
It’s the weekend, so we’ll start the day with a journalistic sort of brunch—eating our words. In yesterday’s report, we said that the province “has been horrible at providing follow-up information” when it comes to “probable” cases, those that aren’t conclusively positive or negative. It came up because there was a probable case at Sackville […]
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4 new cases and more fears of school spread March 26
It’s a complicated day for coronavirus counting. The province is reporting five new COVID-19 infections in its routine daily update to media, but one of those is the Millwood High School case announced yesterday. We counted it yesterday in our numbers (like the map at the top of the page and the table below), but […]
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3 cases—oh crap, make that 4 cases—on Thursday
Every day the province releases the latest COVID-19 data, and every day that information is already late. That’s because the numbers that come out today reflect everything that happened yesterday: the newly diagnosed cases, the patients who recovered from the disease, vaccinations, all of it. The only exception is cases in schools, which are announced […]
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Nova Scotia gets 5 new cases on Wednesday
For a day with five new infections, which is on the high side for the last couple of weeks, Wednesday is pretty unexciting as far as COVID-19 spread goes. And that’s a very good thing. “The cases are in Central Zone,” says the province’s March 24 update to media. “Three of the cases are close […]
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1 new case and a vax breakthrough March 23
Nova Scotia is reporting one new COVID-19 case today. The patient lives in the Sydney, Cape Breton area. “The case is in Eastern Zone and is related to travel outside Atlantic Canada,” says the province’s Tuesday press release report. For a more focused location than the entire Eastern health zone, our table below, which pulls […]
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2 new cases and 20 active patients Monday, March 22
The official case report today from the province is short and, for a pandemic, sweet. There are two new COVID-19 infections in Nova Scotia. “The cases are in Central Zone and are all close contacts of previously reported cases,” says the report. Our table locates both of the new patients in the Dartmouth community health […]
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6 new cases reported in Nova Scotia Sunday, March 21
Nova Scotia is reporting six new COVID-19 infections on this good news/bad news Sunday. The bad news starts with those six fresh cases. It’s been more than two weeks since the province has seen so many cases in a day, dating back to the six cases on Saturday, March 6. “Four of the cases are […]
