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Overview
Vaccination
Demographics
Testing
Potential exposure advisories
Nova Scotia announced one new cases of COVID-19 today, Monday, July 26, over the three-day period from Friday through Sunday..
The single new case in Nova Scotia Health’s Central Zone and is a close contact with a previously announced case.
There are now 13 known active cases in the province. No one is in hospital with the disease.
As the new daily case count and active caseload graphs are pretty much straight lines at or new zero, I will no long post them.
Vaccination
In total, on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 20,225 doses of vaccine were administered. So far, a total of 1,292,173 doses of vaccine have been administered, of which 559,813 were second doses. As of end of day yesterday, 75.4% of the entire population has received at least one dose of vaccine. (By my rough calculation, nearly exactly 85.4% of those eligible to be vaccinated — those 12 years old and older — have received at least one dose.)
The following drop-in, no-appointment-necessary vaccination clinics have been scheduled:
• Rath Eastlink Community Centre (Drive-thru)
East side parking lot
625 Abenaki Rd., Truro
Weekdays from 9am-3:30pm
• Dartmouth General Drive-Thru Community Vaccine Clinic
7 Mount Hope Avenue (behind Dartmouth General Hospital)
Open daily from 9am-5pm
A health card number and ID are needed at these sites. The vaccine being administered is Moderna, so only people 18 years old and over can attend.
The vaccination clinics will close on August 15.
People 12 years old and older can book a vaccination appointment here.
People in rural areas who need transportation to a vaccine clinic should contact Rural Rides, which will get you there and back home for just $5. You need to book the ride 24 hours ahead of time.
Demographics
The active cases across the province are distributed as follows:
Central Zone
• 9 in the Halifax Peninsula/Chebucto Community Health Network
• 2 in the Dartmouth/Southeastern Community Health Network
• 1 in the Bedford/Sackville Community Health Network
• 0 in the Eastern Shore/Musquodoboit Community Health Network
• 0 in the West Hants Community Health Network
• 1 not attributed to a Community Health Network
Total: 12
Eastern Zone
• 0 in the Cape Breton Community Health Network
• 0 in the Inverness, Victoria & Richmond Community Health Network
• 0 in the Antigonish & Guysborough Community Health Network
Total: 0
Northern Zone
• 0 in the Colchester/East Hants Community Health Network
• 0 in the Pictou Community Health Network
• 0 in the Cumberland Community Health Network
Total: 0
Western Zone
• 0 in the Annapolis and Kings Community Health Network
• 1 in the Lunenburg & Queens Community Health Network
• 0 in the Yarmouth, Shelburne & Digby Community Health Network
Total: 1
Testing
Nova Scotia Health labs completed 2,821 PCR tests yesterday. This does not include the antigen tests administered at the various pop-up testing sites.
You do not need a health card to get tested.
Pop-up testing (antigen testing) is for asymptomatic people over 16 who have not been to the potential COVID exposure sites (see map below); results usually within 20 minutes. Pop-up testing has been scheduled for the following sites:
Tuesday
Halifax Convention Centre, noon-7pm
Shore Club, Hubbards, noon-7pm
Cole Harbour Legion, 11:30am-7pm
You can volunteer to work at the pop-up testing sites here or here. No medical experience is necessary.
You can also get PCR testing at the Nova Scotia Health labs by going here. Appointments can be made for the IWK, or for various locations in each of the health zones (appointments may not be available at each site).
Potential exposure advisories
Public Health issued the following “low risk” potential COVID exposure advisory yesterday:
Anyone who worked at or visited the following location on the specified date and time should visit covid-self-assessment.novascotia.ca/ to book a COVID-19 test, regardless of whether or not they have symptoms. You can also call 811 if you don’t have online access, or if you have other symptoms that concern you.
Low-risk exposures
For the following location, if you do not have any symptoms of COVID-19 you do not need to self-isolate while you wait for your test result. If you have symptoms of COVID-19 you are required to self-isolate while you wait for your test result.• Sobeys (60 Tacoma Drive, Dartmouth) on July 21 between 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. It is anticipated that anyone exposed to the virus at this location on the named date may develop symptoms up to, and including, August 4.
There are currently no active potential COVID exposure advisories on bus routes or flights.
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