Nova Scotia Hosts 43rd Meeting of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers
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Nova Scotia Premier Iain Rankin and the other eastern Canadian premiers are exploring receiving excess vaccine from the United States as part of the COVID-19 economic recovery.
Premier Rankin and Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont co-chaired a meeting of New England governors and eastern Canadian premiers this morning, May 17. They are sending a joint letter to the governments of Canada and the United States to help facilitate receipt of the extra vaccine and their work in reopening the border.
The New England states, which have indicated they have a significant percentage of their population vaccinated, are willing to share their excess vaccine as a way of expediting the reopening of borders and the recovery that can follow once that happens.
HALIFAX Nine people who were in the Halifax Infirmary s non-COVID unit are now fighting the virus after infection seeped into their section of the hospital. All those patients have been transferred to the COVID unit and are being cared for there, said Dr. Robert Strang, Nova Scotia s chief medical officer of health. The investigation is still ongoing, but Strang says every patient that comes into the hospital is tested for COVID-19. Still, Dr. Robert Strang indicated the virus was brought into the unit by a patient, not a staff member. It’s quite likely that there was an individual, their first test was negative, but they were very early on an infection and they subsequently became positive and became infectious, Strang said.
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Premier Iain Rankin and Nova Scotia s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robert Strang during a COVID-19 briefing in March.(Communications Nova Scotia)
Rankin, Strang to provide COVID-19 update at 3 p.m. Wednesday
Nova Scotia Premier Iain Rankin and Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robert Strang are scheduled to hold a live COVID-19 briefing at 3 p.m. Wednesday.
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Premier Iain Rankin and Dr. Robert Strang, the chief medical officer of health, at a COVID-19 briefing on April 29.(Communications Nova Scotia)
Nova Scotia Premier Iain Rankin and Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robert Strang are scheduled to hold a live COVID-19 briefing at 3 p.m. Wednesday.
New daily cases were still in the triple digits on Tuesday, with 118 new cases reported, but with more recoveries than new cases, the province s active caseload dropped for the first time in several weeks.
The province continues to work through a backlog in data entry, which has led to high daily case numbers in recent days.
Dr. Robert Strang, the province s chief medical officer of health, said most of the backlog was cleared over the weekend, and he expects the system will be back to regular capacity by mid-week. We are certainly seeing new cases coming in, but that number of new cases, that trend over the last week is coming down on a slow, but regular basis, Strang said at a briefing Monday. We are headed in the right direction, but I m fully aware you don t just turn this around overnight, so we have a number of weeks the month of May that we all have to stay committed . before we can bring those case numbers down.