Global News Morning show host on his family’s fight with COVID-19 The province currently has 1,203 active cases of the virus.
The number of people in hospital has climbed to 40, including nine in the ICU. So far, 69 people have died of the disease.“Case numbers continue to be very high and that’s not unexpected,” said Dr.
Robert Strang, Nova Scotia’s chief medical officer of health, in the release.“As the lab worked through its backlog, positive cases were added into our data system and the data entry is still a bit behind.
That delay is reflected in the high numbers we’re still seeing. The team is working hard and I expect data entry will catch up quickly.