Long a pandemic leader, Nova Scotia is now a COVID-19 hot spot – CBC
‘There’s really a lot of virus out there,’ says infectious diseases expert Dr. Lisa Barrett
Apr 12, 2022
Nova Scotia’s past success at managing the COVID-19 pandemic is also one of the reasons why its daily case counts have never been worse, say two infectious disease experts.
The province has long been lauded for its handling of the pandemic, but daily case counts from the highly transmissible Omicron and BA.2 variants have been rising since late February. They have accelerated dramatically since the Nova Scotia government lifted most public health restrictions on March 21, including gathering limits and mandatory masking in most public places.
“The fact that it continues to go up and the percentage of people that are positive in that group means that there’s really a lot of virus out there,” said Dr. Lisa Barrett, an infectious diseases doctor and researcher at Dalhousie University in Halifax.
Last Thursday, the most recent COVID-19 weekly reporting date, the province announced an average of almost 1,000 new daily cases, an all-time high since the pandemic began.
