Provincial Health officials are reporting seven new cases of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia. One of the new infections is in the Nova Scotia Health Authority’s Eastern Zone, which includes Antigonish
Dr. Robert Strang, Nova Scotia’s Chief Medical Officer of Health (Nova Scotia Government photo)
and Guysborough Counties and Cape Breton. The other six COVID-19 cases are in the NSHA’s Central Zone. To date there have been 1,018 cases of the virus reported in Nova Scotia; 749 have recovered and 47 have died.
The QEII Health Sciences Centre’s Microbiology lab completed 676 tests on Saturday and is operating 24 hours a day.
The province’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Robert Strang says all that’s being done to slow the spread of the virus is working, but we are not out of the woods yet. He says it will take many months and Nova Scotians must remain vigilant.