8 new cases of COVID-19 announced in Nova Scotia today (Thursday,. Feb. 25) 1/
There are now 27 known cases in the province. 1 person remains in hospital with the disease 2/
7 of the new cases are in Nova Scotia Health's Central Zone; the 8th is in the Eastern Zone. Details momentarily 3/
Nova Scotia Health labs conducted 2,969 tests yesterday 4/
In somewhat better news, as of end of day yesterday, 30,748 doses of vaccine have been administered — 18,982 first doses and 11,766 second doses 5/
Here is the graph of the daily new cases and the 7-day rolling average (today at 3.1):
And here is the active caseload:
The 1 case in the Eastern Zone is related to travel outside Atlantic Canada. Of the 7 Central Zone cases, 4 are close contacts to previously announced cases, and 3 are still under investigation
"Let me remind all Nova Scotians of the importance of testing," said Premier Iain Rankin in a statement. “I encourage you, even if you don’t have symptoms, to book an appointment at one of the primary assessment centres or drop into a pop-up testing site.”
@ArticulateDinos@picardonhealth@NSNDP@globalnews@kat_toth And debates about policy are healthy. The government and Strang *should* be challenged, and have to defend their policies. That's what democracy is all about. We have far too much paternalism in Canadian government 2/
Here it is ... a new whack of potential COVID exposures, it 2 parts...
If you've been at these locations, if you have symptoms, you must self-isolate, but if you don't have symptoms, you don't. Either way, you do need to get tested:
And if you were at these locations you need to self-isolate regardless of whether you have symptoms, until you get a negative test:
The 10 new cases today fall into the following demographics:
• 6 aged 20-39 (three women and three men)
• 2 aged 40-59 (both are men)
• 2 aged 60-79 (one woman and one man)
Here is the graph of daily new cases and the 7-day rolling average (today at 2.4):
And here is the active caseload, heading the wrong direction but still much lower than in the December outbreak:
Today's COVID briefing, scheduled to start at 1pm, is delayed about 15 minutes, I'm told, so the daily cased update can be completed first.
There are 10 new cases of COVID-19 announced in Nova Scotia today (Tuesday, Feb. 26) 1/
9 of the new cases are in the Central Zone — 5 of those are close contacts of previously announced cases, 3 are under investigation, and 1 is related to travel outside Atlantic Canada 2/
I am not a parent. Never had kids. But these ever-changing COVID briefing times are giving me insight into how common work practices adversely affect parents, especially women parents. /thread
Although not a parent, my life is arranged in such a way that I do often have child care duties. I love this! It's good stuff, makes my life richer. Best of all: I get to the send the child home after a while, and so my responsibility is limited.
So, tomorrow I have child care duties at 3:15. And the briefing is scheduled for 1pm. No problem! I'll go to One Government for 1pm, it'll be over by 2 or so, and I'll take the bus and be home in plenty of time. Except....
3 new cases of COVID-19 are announced in Nova Scotia today (Wednesday, Feb. 24) 1/
All 3 cases are in Nova Scotia Health's Central Zone. 1 is a close contact of a previously announced case. The other 2 are "under investigation," which typically means we are never again told abut them. 2/
There are now 21 known active cases of the disease in the province. 1 person remains in hospital with the disease, in ICU 3/