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 case tallies; and it's a Monday. Sure enough, the next provincial press release, four hours and seven minutes later, drove the happy thoughts away.