In the year-plus since that tragedy, there haven’t been that many COVID-related deaths provincewide. So, we still appear to be on the right track.Īlso, now that we can look back at the past 18 months from a relatively good place, we might remember that 53 people had died at Northwood alone before we were even in three months into the pandemic. The province had 0.72 cases per 100,000 people yesterday - more than half of what Ontario saw the same day - and 77.9% of all Nova Scotians have received two doses of the vaccine. The century mark is a grim milestone, but the overall outlook of the pandemic in Nova Scotia remains positive.
Ten people are in hospital with COVID-19 one of those people is in ICU. The province announced the death Tuesday along with seven new cases of the virus - all in the Central Zone - bringing the total known active caseload in Nova Scotia to 134. (UPDATE: Nova Scotia Health confirms that the 2 recent COVID deaths in the Western Zone, including the death announced on Tuesday, are NOT related to the outbreak at Valley Regional Hospital). The woman lived in Nova Scotia Health’s Western Zone where a recent outbreak of the disease occurred at Valley Regional Hospital in Kentville, but the Department of Health has not said if this most recent death is related to that outbreak. A woman in her 70s has become the 100th person to die from COVID-19 in Nova Scotia.
