Daily briefing Dr. Robert Strang announced one new case of COVID-19, which has been discovered (as you can see from today’s health zone map below) here in the Eastern Zone. Strang said the case was travel-related and the individual in question self-isolated upon returning to Nova Scotia, keeping their exposureRead More

Daily briefing Today’s briefing began with Premier Stephen McNeil acknowledging the province’s latest COVID-19-related death, a woman in her 80s in the Central Zone who was not a resident of a long-term-care facility (LTCF). McNeil then reminded viewers of the ongoing fire ban, in light of the wildfires that haveRead More

Daily briefing Dr. Robert Strang today announced an additional death at the Northwood long-term-care facility (LTCF) in Halifax, bringing total deaths there to 50. I haven’t done the math on this before but today I did and it is grim: the fatality rate among residents at Northwood has been roughlyRead More

Daily briefing Premier Stephen McNeil has extended Nova Scotia’s State of Emergency for another two weeks, it is now scheduled to end on May 31 unless further extended. Dr. Robert Strang announced four additional deaths at the Northwood long-term-care facility (LTCF), bringing deaths at the Halifax facility to 49 andRead More

Daily briefing Premier Stephen McNeil and Dr. Robert Strang began by offering their condolences to the families of the Northwood resident who died on Saturday. Strang announced one new case of COVID-19 today which, added to the seven new cases announced Sunday and three announced Saturday brings total cases inRead More

Daily briefing Dr. Robert Strang announced three more deaths at the Northwood long-term-care facility (LTCF) in Halifax, bringing total deaths there to 35 and total COVID-19-related deaths across the province to 41. He also announced six new cases of COVID-19, four of which were detected in “various parts” of HRM,Read More

Daily brief Premier Stephen McNeil began by offering his condolences to the family of the Northwood long-term-care facility (LTCF) resident who died on Tuesday and assured families withloved ones in the facility that the government is “working very hard” to get Northwood back to something like normal. Dr. Robert StrangRead More

Daily briefing Premier Stephen McNeil opened today’s briefing by sending his condolences to the families of the three Northwood residents who died of COVID-19 over the last 24 hours and those who died over the weekend. He also marked the National Day of Mourning for all workers who’ve died onRead More

Daily brief Dr. Robert Strang announced four additional COVID-19-related deaths on Thursday, three at the Northwood long-term-care facility (LTCF) in Halifax and one at the Harbourstone Enhanced Care Facility in Sydney. This brings total COVID-19-related deaths in the province to 16. Shannex reported the death on its website today: ItRead More

Daily brief Dr. Robert Strang announced 46 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday bringing Nova Scotia’s total cases to date to 721. He also noted that 48 people have recovered from COVID-19 and there have been no additional deaths, which brings active cases in the province to 464. The majorityRead More