'); })() In its first COVID update since taking the weekend/Emancipation Day/Natal Day holiday off, the province is reporting six new infections and three recoveries. With a net increase of three new cases, Nova Scotia's active caseload is up to 12 active cases. Six new cases is a lot for NS right now. There were seven cases about two weeks ago, on Wednesday, July 21, and four weeks ago—Tuesday, July 6—was another seven; today is the next-highest total in recent weeks. But even though today's report has six cases, that's not necessarily six cases in a single day, because this report's covering diagnoses from Friday, Saturday, Sunday and the Monday holiday, or an average of 1.5 new cases per day. Unhelpfully, the province doesn't give any indication of when these cases were diagnosed.