HALIFAX: The province of N.S. announced that on April 16 there was one death related to COVID19, a woman in her 80s who lived in the Central zone has died.
There have now been 67 COVID-related deaths in Nova Scotia.
Six new cases of COVID-19 are being reported today.
Three cases are in Central Zone. One is a close contact of a previously reported case and the other two are related to travel outside Atlantic Canada.
Two cases are in Eastern Zone and one case is in Western Zone, all related to travel outside Atlantic Canada.
In all cases, the people are self-isolating, as required.
Unrelated to the cases announced today, an additional UK variant case has been identified. This case was previously reported and is included in the provincial data, though the person is not in Nova Scotia and has no known close contacts in the province.
This brings the total number of cases of the UK variant in Nova Scotia to 45. The number of South African variant cases remains at 10.
As of today, Nova Scotia has 42 active cases of COVID-19.
Nova Scotia Health Authority’s labs completed 2,032 Nova Scotia tests on April 15.
There were 248 tests administered between April 10 and 11 at the rapid-testing pop-up sites in Dartmouth and Halifax.
As of April 15, 194,792 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
Of those, 32,255 Nova Scotians have received their second dose.
