Premier Houston, Strang to give COVID-19 update today
CBC
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston and Dr. Robert Strang, chief medical officer of health, will give an update about COVID-19 on Wednesday afternoon.
The news conference will be live streamed here at 3 p.m. AT.
On Tuesday, Nova Scotia reported one additional death from COVID-19 and said 73 people are receiving specialized care in a designated hospital unit because of the coronavirus, including 15 who are in intensive care.
The person who died was a woman in her 80s from the eastern zone.
Less than 10 per cent of Nova Scotians are unvaccinated, according to provincial statistics. More than 83 per cent of Nova Scotians have received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 90.6 per cent have received at least one dose, as of Monday.
Currently, unvaccinated Nova Scotians are about four 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.
P.E.I.'s Public Schools Branch is looking for 50 substitute bus drivers, and it'll be recruiting at three job fairs on Saturday, June 8. The job fairs are located at the Atlantic Superstore in Montague, Royalty Crossing in Charlottetown, and the bus parking lot of Three Oaks Senior High in Summerside. All three run from 9 a.m. until noon. Dave Gillis, the director of transportation and risk management for the Public Schools Branch, said the number of substitute drivers they're hiring isn't unusual. "We are always looking for more. Our drivers tend to have an older demographic," he said.