5 new cases of COVID-19 announced in Nova Scotia today (Saturday, March 13) /1
There are now 20 known cases in the province. 1 person is in hospital with the disease, but not in ICU 2/
Nova Scotia Health labs completed 2,004 tests yesterday 3/
3 of the new cases are in the Western Zone and are closely contacts of previously announced cases. The other 2 are in the Central Zone —1 is related to travel and the other is under investigation 4/
yesterday’s case is being removed from Nova Scotia’s numbers and is assigned to another province
I’ll have graphs and more details at 3:30
Here is the graph of daily new cases and the 7-day rolling average (today at 1.9):
Here is the active caseload:
Of today's cases, 1 is a man aged 20-39; 2 are men aged 40-59; 1 is a woman aged 60-79; and 1 is a man aged 60-79.
The data on the dashboard for cases per Community Health Networks are completely wrong. I don't know what's going on there, but there's no relationship to the numbers that were there yesterday, and the new cases don't account for them.
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The first three COVID cases in Nova Scotia tested positive a year ago today, March 14, 2020 (they were announced the next day, March 15). A lot of stuff has happened since.
Hindsight being 20-20, it's easy to criticize after the fact. People were initially really scared and really confused, scientists and public health officials included, so mistakes and miscues were understandable.
But I always saw closing parks and beaches (and ticketing people for doing stuff like sitting on benches) was a horrible idea. And encouraging people to return to Canada I think (not sure on this one) was probably a bad idea.
1 new case of COVID-19 is announced in Nova Scotia today (Friday, March 12) 1/
The new case is in Nova Scotia Health's Eastern Zone, and is under investigation 2/
There are now 17 known active cases in the province — we haven't had this few since Feb. 18, when there were 15. 1 person is in hospital with the disease, but not in ICU. 3/
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/
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/