Nova Scotia reports 12 COVID-19 deaths in latest update

Nova Scotia reported 12 COVID-19 deaths in its weekly update on Thursday.

All of the deaths are from previous reporting periods, meaning theymost likely occurred within the last weeks or months.

Since March 2020, there have been 832 deaths related to the virus.

The province also reported 252 new cases confirmed by PCR tests, a daily average of 36 cases.

Nova Scotia Healthreported 121 people in hospital with COVID-19 on Thursday. This is a decrease from the previous reporting period when there were126 people in hospital with COVID-19.

Of those 121 people:

• 12were in hospital for COVID-19 (including 2peoplein ICU).
• 66 were in hospital for something else but have COVID-19.
• 43 patients contracted COVID-19 after admission.

The IWKHealth Centre reported fewer than five hospitalizations on Thursday.

Nova Scotia Health said there were 67 employees off work Wednesday due tobeing diagnosed with COVID-19, awaiting test resultsor being exposed to a member of their household who tested positive.

The IWK reported 19employees off work due to COVID-19 or isolation requirementson Thursday.