Nova Scotia reports 2 COVID-19 related deaths Thursday
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Nova Scotia reported two COVID-19 deaths on Thursday and 66 people in designated COVID-19 hospital units, including 11 in ICU.
The deaths were two men in the eastern zone, one in his 50s and one in his 70s.
The province said data on the deaths came from Panorama, Public Health's disease information system. In a news release, it said the deaths were added to Panorama only after they were identified to be related to COVID-19, "which can take days and weeks to report."
"Data on deaths is reflective of virus activity in the past, at the point of infection, and not the situation today, at the point of reporting," the release said.
Since the Omicron wave began on Dec. 8, 76 Nova Scotians have died because of COVID-19.
Unvaccinated Nova Scotians are more than five times more likely to be hospitalized or die due to COVID-19 than someone with two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. That is based on average hospitalizations since the province started releasing daily hospitalization numbers by vaccine status on Jan. 4.
Unvaccinated people are also about six times as likely to die of COVID-19 during the Omicron wave than someone who had received a booster dose, based on numbers provided by the province and last updated on Feb. 11.
The vaccination status of the 66 people being treated in COVID-19 designated hospital units is:
The age range for people in hospital is 13 to 93 years old, and the median age is 64.
The province said Thursday that 85.9 per cent of Nova Scotia's population has received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, while 91.6 per cent have had one dose.
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