
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.













