As predicted, the Nova Scotia Department of Education and Early Childhood Development’s long-awaited plan for getting students back to school in September has been met with push-back and “yeah-buts” from both opposition parties, the NSTU and CUPE Nova Scotia, who feel it is short on details about how, exactly, it’sRead More

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 Dr. Robert Strang announced one new case of COVID-19 today. He also explained a discrepancy in the number of recovered cases, which went from 976 yesterday to 975 today, saying it reflected their ongoing efforts to review and update their data. The new case involved a resident atRead 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 announced two new cases of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, both of which are associated with Halifax’s Northwood long-term-care facility (one resident and one staff member). Both Strang and the premier acknowledged the death, on Thursday, of another Northwood resident, bringing total COVID-19-related deaths in theRead 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 Dr. Robert Strang announced three additional COVID-19-related deaths at the Northwood long-term-care facility in Halifax, bringing total deaths at the facility to 45 and total deaths province-wide to 51. Nova Scotia announced four new cases, all associated with Northwood — two staff and two residents. In response toRead More

Daily Briefing Dr. Robert Strang today announced two more deaths at the Northwood long-term-care facility (LCTF) in Halifax, bringing total deaths at the facility to 40 and total deaths across the province to 46. Strang also announced one new case of COVID-19. Doing the math, it seems there are onlyRead More