The current spike in cases requires the Public Health team to shift contact tracing priorities. Public health is currently able to contact all new cases with 24 hours. There may be delays in contacting high-risk contacts of those cases.
Nova Scotia Health Public Health is advising of the following corrections to yesterday’s release on potential exposure to COVID-19 at various locations across the province in all four zones.
Teams at Dartmouth General Hospital and the QEII Health Sciences Centre are working to review and adjust surgical schedules to reduce elective surgery volumes by up to 25 per cent over the next couple of weeks.
Nova Scotia Health Environmental Laboratory Services water testing within Central Zone (Halifax Regional Municipality, Eastern Shore and West Hants areas) is being suspended until further notice. This is in effect immediately for at least two weeks and then will be reassessed at that time.
People parking at Annapolis Community Health Centre, Digby General Hospital and Soldiers Memorial Hospital have more payment options, including a new way to pay for parking
In response to the recent increase of potential COVID-19 public exposure locations in the Central Zone and the resulting heightened demand for testing, Public Health’s mobile health units will be in Lake Echo and Dartmouth this week to offer additional testing in the areas most affected.
When Eileen Rivas de Caccavale, logistic manager, supply chain operations at Nova Scotia Health, heard that a local business was going to donate 11,000 face shields to frontline workers, she immediately picked up the phone to call the donor.
