Nova Scotia’s lockdown
9 days Two of the cases in Central Zone involve a staff member and resident of the Clarmar Residential Care Facility, a residential care home in Dartmouth, says the provincial report. This is the third staff member and third resident at the facility to test positive. In the world of long-term care, Nova Scotia makes a distinction between
nursing homes and
residential care. On Monday, in response to Coast questions about those first two resident cases at Clarmar, the department of health and wellness emailed: Residents in nursing homes have received both the first and second dose of vaccination. Second dose clinics will be completed for residents in residential care facilities in May. Clarmar provides residential care, so its residents could be waiting until the end of the month for their second dose. We asked the province if today s infected Clarmar resident had zero, one or two doses of vaccine, but haven t received an answer yet.
What we (don’t) know about Nova Scotia’s two recent COVID deaths
Strang says many details are being kept quiet for privacy reasons, but those that have been released are concerning. On Tuesday May 4, Nova Scotia reported two new deaths related to COVID-19 in the province. The first is a man in his 70s, the second a woman in her 50s, bringing the total number of deaths in the province to 69. “This is a difficult briefing today,” said premier Iain Rankin when he announced the deaths at a press conference yesterday afternoon with public health head Robert Strang. “On behalf of all Nova Scotians, I want to extend my sincere condolences to their families and their friends.”
The Coast
Yesterdays chaos didn t end yesterday. The province is announcing one new COVID-19 case in the official update today, and it s deleting one of the cases announced Saturday because somebody typed the wrong thing. If only this latest Saturday mistake could be blamed on losing an hour of sleep because daylight savings time s return caused clocks to spring forward an hour, but that didn t happen until this morning. Wacky time! The new case is in the Nova Scotia Health Authority s Central zone, specifically the Dartmouth community health network. It s travel-related. Then comes today s the magically disappearing case, which is totally separate from the case that got removed yesterday. The case reported in Central Zone yesterday, March 13, that was under investigation has been removed due to a data entry error, says the provincial report. There were fo