N.S. reports six new cases of COVID-19 Wednesday
CBC
Nova Scotia reported six new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing the active number of cases to 159.
Three of the new cases are in the central zone, including two that are related to travel and one that is under investigation.
Two cases are in the northern zone, both of which are close contacts of previously reported cases.
One case is in the eastern zone and is related to travel.
The number of new cases is a dramatic drop from Tuesday, when 66 new cases were reported, and from Monday, when 73 cases were reported over the weekend.
During a news briefing on Tuesday, Dr. Robert Strang, Nova Scotia's chief medical officer of health, announced that there has been an outbreak of COVID-19 in the northern zone. Sixty-one of Tuesday's 66 new cases were in the northern zone, and 59 of them were close contacts of previously reported cases.
Strang said the outbreak was in a tightly knit community of largely unvaccinated people, with more than 100 cases total. He said most have mild to moderate symptoms and there have been three hospitalizations.