Nova Scotia health officials reported 38 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing the number of active cases to 111.
It’s the highest single-day total seen since April 23, 2020, and the highest number of active cases since December.
Premier Iain Rankin and Dr. Robert Strang, the province’s chief medical officer of health, are scheduled to hold a COVID-19 briefing at 1:30 today as the number of cases continues to rise. It will be livestreamed here.
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Nova Scotia reports highest new COVID-19 case total since November
The province, which has so far managed to avoid the spike in cases seen elsewhere in the country during the third wave of the pandemic, has reported an uptick in numbers in recent days, with 87 new cases announced since Monday.
Thirty-three of the new cases are in the province’s central health zone. Two are related to travel outside of Atlantic Canada, two are related to travel outside of Canada, 19 are close contacts of previously reported cases, and 10 are under investigation. Two of those were already identified Wednesday at Bell Park Academic Centre in Lake Echo and Shannon Park Elementary in Dartmouth.
Three cases are in the province’s eastern health zone and are related to travel outside Atlantic Canada, as is the one new case reported in the northern zone.
One new case is in the western zone and is related to travel outside of Canada. All of the travel-related cases are self-isolating, the province said.
One of the new cases is a confirmed case of the U.K. variant, but it’s unclear which health zone it’s in.
Over the last few days, the province reported seven schools in the central zone with cases of COVID-19.
As of this morning, the border from New Brunswick to Nova Scotia is closed to non-essential travel for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
