COVID-19 - Canada to update its ‘fully-vaccinated’ definition Beginning this week, the province is including reinfections as part of its lab-confirmed cases count.
According to a news release, the province had previously not included reinfections “because the number was small” but the Omicron variant has made reinfections “more frequent.”“Since the beginning of the Omicron wave, there have been 215 people who have tested positive 90 days or more after a previous positive PCR test result,” said Dr.
Shelley Deeks, Nova Scotia’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Health, in the release.“At this point, many Nova Scotians have tested positive for COVID-19, so the chances of reinfection become more probable; that is why we have shifted our reporting to include the number of reinfections in our weekly case count.”This week’s data also included 28 hospitalizations and 10 deaths.