10 deaths from previous reporting period announced in N.S. COVID-19 weekly update

Nova Scotia has reported no new COVID-19 deaths within the latest reporting week from Nov. 15 to Nov. 21.

But there are 10more deaths from a previous timethat the province has not specified, according to information released Thursday.

Those deathswere listed ina recently addedcategory onNova Scotia's COVID-19 dashboardthat launched on the dashboard on Nov. 3.

The province said deaths reported in this category could be from any past reporting period, but mostlikely to be within weeks or months of being reported.

The provincereported 515new cases confirmed by PCR tests for that same time period a daily average of about 74. This is down from last week, whenthere were552PCR-confirmed cases.

Nova Scotia Healthreported223 people in hospital with COVID-19 on Thursday.That is down from238the previous week.

Of those 223people:

• 29 were in hospital for COVID-19 (including four people in ICU).
• 131 were in hospital for something else but have COVID-19.
• 63 patients contracted COVID-19 after admission.

The IWKHealth Centre reported fewer than five hospitalizations on Thursday.

Health-care staff off work

Nova Scotia Health said there were107employees off work Thursday due to being diagnosed with COVID-19, awaiting test resultsor being exposed to a member of their household who tested positive.

The IWK reported 31 employees off work due to COVID-19 on Thursday.