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4 Feb, 9 tweets, 2 min read

1 new case of COVID-19 is announced in Nova Scotia today (Thursday, Feb. 4) 1/

There are now 10 known active cases in the province. 2 people are in hospital with the disease, 1 of whom is in ICU 2/

The new case is in Nova Scotia Health's Central Zone and is related to travel outside of Atlantic Canada 3/

Nova Scotia Health labs conducted just 854 tests yesterday; Dr. Strang yesterday encourage asymptomatic people to arrange testing, which you can do here: covid-self-assessment.novascotia.ca/en

As of yesterday, 16,448 doses of vaccine have been administered; of those, 4,046 were second doses.

I have an appointment; I'll update graphs after 1pm.

Here is the graph of daily new cases and the 7-day rolling average (today at 1.1):

And here's the active caseload:

So, it looks like NS is about as good as it can be on the virus front, so long as people are still flying in with it [knock wood]. I tell my American friends I live in the alternate universe. Keep it up.

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