COVID-19 no longer top issue facing Canadians ahead of possible election: poll In a release, the province says the single new case since Friday is in Central Zone and is a close contact of a previously-reported case.That brings Nova Scotia’s active case count to 13, and no hospitalizations.According to the provincial data, 75.4 per cent of the entire population has received one or more doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, and 57.6 per cent are fully vaccinated..