Nova Scotia reports 10 COVID-19 deaths in latest update

Nova Scotia reported 10 COVID-19 deaths in a weekly update on Thursday, all of whichare from previous reporting periods, meaning theymost likely occurred within the last weeks or months.

Since March 2020, there have been 788 deaths related to the virus.

The province also reported 391 new cases confirmed by PCR tests, a daily average of 56 cases. This is up from the previous reporting period,when there were 357 new cases confirmed by PCR tests.

Nova Scotia Healthreported 187 people in hospital with COVID-19 on Thursday. This is a decrease from the previous reporting period when there were198 people in hospital with COVID-19.

Of those 187 people:

• 31 were in hospital for COVID-19 (including 5 peoplein ICU).
• 92 were in hospital for something else but have COVID-19.
• 64 patients contracted COVID-19 after admission.

The IWKHealth Centre reported fewer than five hospitalizations on Thursday.

Nova Scotia Health said there were 90 employees off work Wednesday due tobeing diagnosed with COVID-19, awaiting test resultsor being exposed to a member of their household who tested positive.

The IWK reported 23 employees off work due to COVID-19 or isolation requirementson Thursday.