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.

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Hey Nova Scotia!

For the first time in months there are some untraced cases of COVID-19 in the province.

This raises the possibility that there is a cluster out there that hasn't been found yet. The sooner it's found, the easier it will be to contain.
Here's what you can do to help:

Go get tested in the next few days, and encourage others to do the same.

If you don't have any symptoms, you can book an appointment or check out the upcoming pop-up testing sites: nshealth.ca/asymptomatic-c…
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I seemingly briefly lost control of the language centers of my brain while typing out one of the more important tweets of the update. Typical!

I've tweeted a bunch of times that the virus always gets to move first, and we always have to catch up.
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"How bad is it?!?"

We don't know. It's possible we've stumbled across most or all of the cases. Or the province is poking around the edges of a large cluster.

Here's how we find out: Go Get Tested.
The more people that get tested, the faster we'll find a cluster if it exists, and put the issue to rest if it doesn't.

So, take a few minutes to head down to one of the testing sites in your area, and get tested.

Encourage your friends and family to get tested, too.
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Today in the #AtlanticBubble

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There are now 468 known active cases in the Atlantic region - less than there was a week ago.
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There is now only 1 know, active cases in PEI.
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There are no presumptive cases awaiting confirmation.

There are now 372 known, active cases in NL.
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Today in the #AtlanticBubble

Cautious optimism

There were 16 new cases reported in the region today: 1 each in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and 14 in Newfoundland and Labrador.

1 new death was reported; the region's 95th.

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Unfortunately, 1 additional death was reported in NB, also in the Edmundston region.

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Today in the #AtlanticBubble

Don't panic.

There were 68 new cases in the region today: 1 in Nova Scotia, 14 in New Brunswick, and 53 in Newfoundland and Labrador.

There are now 298 known, active cases in the Atlantic region.
PEI didn't update their numbers today, leaving them with 4 known,, active cases.
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~18% of the cases that have ever been reported in NL have been in the last 3 days.

And they'll be OK.
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