3 new cases of COVID-19 are announced in Nova Scotia today (Sunday, Feb. 28) 1/
1 case is in the Central Zone and is a close contact of a previously announced case. The other 2 cases are in the Northern and Eastern Zones and are related to travel outside Atlantic Canada. 2/
There are now 38 active cases in the province. Two people are in hospital with the disease, in ICU 3/
Nova Scotia Health labs conducted a whopping 4,839 tests yesterday, a single-day record 4/
"In addition, the number of people getting a pop-up test on both Friday and Saturday was four times higher than the average daily total," says a Health Department release, but doesn't say the # 5/
I'm driving and had to pull over to post these. I'll get to my destination and have more 6/
Of the 3 new cases, 2 are men aged 20-39. The 3rd is a man aged 60-79. 7/
I have an appointment. I'll update graphs just after 4.
Here's the graph of daily new cases and the rolling 7-day average (today up to 4.6)
And here's the active caseload:
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On this date (March 2) in 1835, Joe Howe defended himself on charges of seditious libel in the courtroom that is now the legislative library at Province House 1/
Howe had used his newspaper, The Nova Scotian, to call out corruption among the magistrates in Halifax, and they in turn charged him with libel. The judge instructed the jury to convict, but after Howe's 6-hour defence, they found him not guilty. 2/
Some commentators, and I think this starts with John Ralston Saul, Canada's public philosopher, have attributed the trial to the beginning of freedom of speech in Canada. I don't know enough about legal history to know how true that is, but the idea is widely accepted 3/
4 new cases of COVID-19 announced in Nova Scotia today (Saturday, Feb. 27) /1
3 cases are in the Central Zone and are close contacts of previously announced cases. The 4th is in the Eastern Zone and is related to travel outside Atlantic Canada 2/
There are now 39 active cases in the province. There are now 2 people in hospital with the disease, both in ICU 3/
@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: