N.S. top doctor says no new COVID-19 restrictions coming despite surging case count
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In an interview with Global News Morning, and ahead of a 2 p.m. briefing with Premier Tim Houston, Dr. Robert Strang says no new changes are imminent.
Nova Scotia shouldn’t expect any new restrictions out of a COVID-19 briefing Monday afternoon, the province’s chief medical officer of health told Global News Morning.
In an interview, Dr. Robert Strang said the high case counts the province has been seeing recently is “not totally unexpected.” He expects many of the 1,893 cases announced over the weekend are related to holiday gatherings from the previous week.
“This is all about continuing to try to find the balance,” Strang said. “We need to accept that Omicron is widespread and that any time we’re out in public or doing activities there’s a strong possibility we might be exposed.”
Strang, along with Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston, are expected to hold a COVID-19 news briefing Monday afternoon. The event is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. and will be live streamed here.
“We’re not looking, at this point in time, to increase restrictions,” he said. “We expected to see these spikes, and a week from now, maybe a little spike from New Year’s.”
He said the key is to continue to watch hospitalizations, and noted that only a small percentage of cases being reported are going to hospital. Strang said Nova Scotians should continue to follow the public health measures currently in place.
“Our focus is really on that severe illness and protecting those that are most vulnerable, and we are going to have to tolerate a fair degree of spread of COVID in communities, and we can expect it to go on for the next few weeks,” he said.
While public school students in some provinces, like New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador, will begin their winter semesters online, Strang said the plan in Nova Scotia is still for students to return to in-person learning on Jan. 10.
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