Even though the pandemic shut down the annual church service and wreath ceremony, Cape Bretoners found a way to remember fallen coal miners on Friday for Nova Scotia's William Davis Miners' Memorial Day.
Nova Scotia is reporting 18 news cases of COVID-19 today, including three in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality and one in the Inverness, Victoria, and Richmond Community Health Network.
Thirteen new cases are being reported in the Central Zone, and one in the West.
Forty-five Nova Scotians have recovered, bringing the number of known, active cases in the province to 224.
Eleven people have recovered in the municipality, bringing the number of active cases here to 53.
There are now two active cases in the rest of Cape Breton Island, for a total of 56 in the Eastern Zone.
Twenty people province-wide are in hospital with the respiratory infection, six in intensive care.
Francis Campbell: Setting course on road back to normal A priest gives a blessing following a funeral Mass. CNS photo/Karen Callaway Francis Campbell: Setting course on road back to normal By Francis Campbell June 3, 2021
A glimmer of light is now visible at the end of our 15-month-long tunnel of unnatural existence.
“Our phased plan will allow us to safely enjoy summer with public health measures in place while we work at getting most of our population fully vaccinated,” Premier Iain Rankin said May 28 in announcing Nova Scotia’s plan for a gradual summer re-opening.
“Then we should be able to further ease restrictions in the fall and ease in to a new normal of living with COVID-19.”
Many in the community are mourning the loss of Ian MacIntosh, the recently retired head of the Cape Breton Regional Library, who died May 22 after being hit by a vehicle while walking on George Street in Sydney a week earlier.