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HALIFAX Nine people who were in the Halifax Infirmary s non-COVID unit are now fighting the virus after infection seeped into their section of the hospital. All those patients have been transferred to the COVID unit and are being cared for there, said Dr. Robert Strang, Nova Scotia s chief medical officer of health. The investigation is still ongoing, but Strang says every patient that comes into the hospital is tested for COVID-19. Still, Dr. Robert Strang indicated the virus was brought into the unit by a patient, not a staff member. It’s quite likely that there was an individual, their first test was negative, but they were very early on an infection and they subsequently became positive and became infectious, Strang said. ....
HALIFAX The Halifax Infirmary is home to the Central Zone s COVID-19 critical care unit but eight patients in the hospital s non-COVID unit have contracted the virus. Our infection prevention and control are now looking into that and trying to do contact tracing to see how that might have occurred, said Dr. Tom O Leary, the medical director of critical care for Nova Scotia Health. Those patients have been isolated. Those patients are part of the 110 new cases reported Thursday: 83 of them, in the Central Zone; 6 in the Northern Zone; 12 in the Eastern Zone; and, 9 in the Western Zone. There are currently 93 patients in hospital with COVID-19. ....