49 new cases of COVID-19 announced in Nova Scotia today (Monday, May 24) /thread
This is the first time there have been fewer than 50 cases since April 23.
Of those cases, 41 are in Nova Scotia Health's Central Zone, 8 are in the Eastern Zone, 3 are in the Northern Zone, and zero are in the Western Zone
There are now 894 known active cases in the province.
Replying to @Tim_Bousquet
Nova Scotia Health labs completed 4,364 PCR tests yesterday. This does not include the antigen testing done at pop-up testing sites.
CORRECTION: there are 0 cases in the Northern Zone as well (it was updating as I tweeted).
There are 72 people in hospital with the disease, 19 of whom are in ICU.
Here is the graph of daily new cases and the 7-day rolling average (today at 73) since March 28, the last day of zero new cases:
And here is the active caseload since March 28:
Here is the daily new case count since the start of the pandemic in March 2020:
And here is the active caseload for the duration of the pandemic, annotated with the primary association of each of the 3 major outbreaks:
98 people are considered newly recovered today.
In a press release, Dr Strang notes the low case number but says testing was also down yesterday. (The positivity rate remains around 1%.) "Our testing centres are open, and I encourage those that are out to stop in and get tested," he says.
Today's new cases break down into the following age cohorts:
0-19: 11
20-39: 22
40-59: 11
60-79: 4
80+: 1
Here are the cases by age cohort as a percentage of daily case totals:
I'll have more demographic and geographic info in an article to be published in a while.
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Pop-up testing (antigen testing) is for asymptomatic people over 16 who have not been to the potential COVID exposure sites (see next tweet); results usually within 20 minutes.
Tonight's potential COVID exposure list is "just" 8 sites in HRM, and no buses or flights:
I was going to start supper, but instead I'll update the potential exposure map. Won't take long.
I've updated the potential COVID exposure map. You can zoom in and click on the coronavirus icons to get details about each site: google.com/maps/d/u/0/edi…