Thread by @WilsonKM2

Today in the #AtlanticBubble

There were 15 new cases today: 2 each in PEI and New Brunswick, 3 in Nova Scotia, and 8 in Newfoundland and Labrador.

1 new death has been reported, bringing the total in the region to 96.

There are now 433 known, active cases in the region.

PEI reported 2 new cases today, both were labeled as travel-related but the description sounds more like close contacts of a travel case.

A related exposure notice has been issued for the Toys R Us in Charlottetown for yesterday (23FEB2021) from 10am to noon.

PEI has announced a pilot project to test all travelers arriving in the Charlottetown airport using rapid tests, which is great.

There are now 3 known, active cases in PEI.

NL reported 8 new cases today, all in the Eastern health region.

If numbers stay like this over the next few days, the trend line will collapse to about a quarter of where it is. Fingers crossed.

There are now 345 known, active cases in NL.

Here is the health-region timeline for NL.

They're on day 12 of their province-wide lockdown after the onset their largest ever outbreak, fueled entirely by the UK variant.

Going in the right direction.

NB reported 2 new cases today: 1 each in Moncton and Edmundston.

There are now 64 known, active cases in NB.

Here is the updated restrictions and current cases map, and cases per capita timeline for the NB health regions.

"Did Edmundston finally drop into the 2.5/100k bin?"

Of course not. In defiance of the laws of gods and men, Edmundston's running average is now 5.03/100k.

Tomorrow

NS reported 3 new cases today, all in the Halifax area. One is a close contact of an existing case and 2 are still under investigation.

There are now 21 known, active cases in NS.

There has been a slight uptick in the number of cases in NS in recent weeks, but more worryingly a marked increased in the number of untraced cases.

So, the province is mobilizing additional testing resources to the affected areas, namely Annapolis Valley and Sackville.

If you're there or near any of the pop-up testing sites please please go get tested.

Even if you don't have any symptoms. If there's a cluster out there that hasn't been detected, the fasted we can resolve it.

Go. Get. Tested.

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There's one thing I forgot to note in my NL update.

Today NL reported its first death of the current outbreak, and the first in the province in nearly 5 months.

For a lot of us in the region the thought of losing someone in the pandemic can feel like a far away risk.

But for all our success as a region, we're never more than a failed isolation away from an outbreak, and all it takes is some bad luck to reach someone who dies from it.

So, keep up your due diligence and take care of one another.

There have been 5 deaths in NL.