Nova Scotia reports 4 COVID-19 deaths Thursday
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Nova Scotia reported four COVID-19 deaths on Thursday and 97 people in designated hospital units, including 13 people in the ICU.
The deaths included a woman in her 60s in the central zone, a woman in her 80s in the central zone, a woman in her 90s in the central zone and a man in his 90s in the eastern zone.
Nova Scotia's health authority has reported some hospitals are exceeding their patient capacity and have occasionally had no room for new admissions.
The system's overall capacity was at 104 per cent on Tuesday and the province said pressure from COVID-19 patients led to one emergency department closing on Monday.
The age range of people in hospital is between one and 100 and the average age is 66, according to a news release. The average hospital stay is 7.9 days.
The vaccination status of those in hospital is:
Currently, unvaccinated Nova Scotians are about 3.5 times more likely to be hospitalized due to COVID-19 than someone with two doses of vaccine. That is based on average hospitalizations since the province started releasing the daily hospitalization numbers by vaccine status on Jan. 4.
Nova Scotia Health Authority labs completed 3,922 tests on Wednesday and an additional 401 new lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported.
There are 176 cases in central zone, 55 cases in eastern zone, 59 cases in northern zone and 111 cases in western zone.
The province estimates there are 3,647 active cases of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia.
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