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Updates including briefings, infections and our daily map of community COVID-19.

Updates including briefings, infections and our daily map of community COVID-19.

Updates including briefings, infections and our daily map of community COVID-19. Community spread confirmed in Sydney The province started seeding this on Saturday, when it added two sentences to the standard language in the daily COVID report: "There is community spread in Central Zone. The Eastern, Northern and Western Zones continue to be closely monitored for community spread. There are some areas of concern, particularly in Sydney, Bridgewater and the Annapolis Valley from New Mi...

Vaccinations open to 30+ Apparently the province has opened vaccinations up to the next-youngest age group, people ages 30 to 34. There hasnt been an official announcement, and the words on the vaccine booking website still say only people 35 years old and older can register, but The Coast is reporting that "quick-with-the-keyboards millennials discovered that appointments were open for their cohort," and the booking site will actually allow the 30-to-34 group to in. Strankin briefing at 3pm ...

17 days The province successfully applied to the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia for an injunction to stop anti-vax and/or anti-mask protests. Apparently some people had been organizing a rally for Saturday—a rally doubtless intended to bring together more than a single household of idiots, who would crowd together without masks, chanting slogans demanding that chief public health doctor Robert Strang stop trying to protect the publics health. The injunction prevents t...

Updates including briefings, infections and our daily map of community COVID-19.

Updates including briefings, infections and our daily map of community COVID-19. That whole backlog situ We lived under the backlog for nearly two weeks, as wave after wave of issues hit. First the province had 45,000 too many tests to process, then it had too much testing data, and the whole time it was impossible to know how bad Nova Scotias pandemic was, exactly. Now that the backlogs finally cleared, Victoria Walton looks back to explain what was going on. Add the story to the top of ...

35 Total cases in Nova Scotia during pandemic 2,854 But any joy inspired by the idea of car-based inoculation—or "auto-immunity" if you want to make a doctor groan—was destined to be short-lived. Monday is the sixth day of the province-wide lockdown; and it comes after two days of the highest daily counts of new COVID-19 cases the east coast has seen during the pandemic; and the province is still working through the massive backlog of C19 tests that doubtless played a role in those high cas...

41 TABLE NOTES The totals for the health zones (Northern, Eastern, Western, Central) may be different than the totals youd get by adding up the numbers in the Community Health Networks that make up each zone. The zone totals reflect every case in the area, while the community network numbers only show cases that can be localized with the patients postal code to a region inside the bigger area. Because case information may be updated by the province after cases are announced, two thing...

Map of COVID-19 cases reported in Nova Scotia as of April 27, 2021. Legend here. THE COAST 96 new cases and Nova Scotia gets locked down April 27  The province’s COVID-19 third wave goes from bad to worse on Tuesday. 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. Thats the most in N...