The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. It will be sometime next week before Nova Scotians get a glimpse of how restrictions will be eased once the province has gone two weeks without a new case of COVID-19. The Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Robert Strang, said he expects to be […]
45 Northwood residents have died with COVID-19
The disease has now spread into the non-nursing home part of the complex, apparently via a room for smokers.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The death toll continues to climb at the Northwood nursing home in Halifax. Northwood CEO Janet Simm and Executive Director Josie Ryan held an online briefing today to report three more residents have died, bringing the total to 45 at the 485-bed complex. Equally discouraging […]
Share, but don’t scare with, the COVID-19 information
Morning File, Wednesday, May 13, 2020
News The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. 1. COVID-19 update Mary Campbell at the Cape Breton Spectator gives us the daily update on COVID-19. Dr. Robert Strang announced just one new positive case of COVID-19, and fortunately no new deaths. Here are the numbers: Total new cases: 1 Total cases: 1,020 Total hospitalized: 9 […]
The pandemic playbook
Morning File, Tuesday, May 12, 2020
News 1. Mass killer’s former neighbour recounts horrifying history of violence and terror Joan Baxter speaks with a former Portapique neighbour of the killer who committed the worst mass murder in Canadian history. Even after his death, and despite the fact she now lives in western Canada, she would only agree to be identified by […]
Let’s go on holiday… to late 1960s PEI!
Morning File, Wednesday, May 6, 2020
News 1. COVID-19 update: Strang defends Northwood as deaths mount Zane Woodford covered yesterday’s COVID-19 briefing by premier Stephen McNeil and chief medical officer of health Robert Strang. The good news: new daily cases were in the single digits again, with just six reported. The bad news: three more deaths, bringing the provincial total to […]
How effective is Public Health messaging?
Dal psychologist is part of a global study to assess whether people are following directives, and how they're holding up through the crisis.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Are you staying out of parks as a result of fines and Public Health directives to slow down the spread of COVID-19? Are you wearing a mask to the grocery store? How often are you washing your hands? Are you more worried about getting sick […]
Sierra Leone
“Mommy, I want you to get used to it, don’t shake anyone’s hand, including me.”
Cover photo: Citizens of Freetown crowd in for water distribution but wash hands first. Photo: Theophilus Gbenda. This is the fourth in the “Living through the coronavirus crisis: stories from the African continent” series of personal stories from different countries in Africa, which provide a glimpse of how people are coping with the COVID-19 crisis, […]
Kenya
"Every tailor is making masks."
Cover photo: Dali’s son Donald (striped shirt) playing with friends in the apartment complex in Nairobi. Photo Dali Mwagore. This is the third in the “Living through the coronavirus crisis: stories from countries in Africa” series of personal stories from different countries in Africa, which provide a glimpse of how people are coping with the […]
Mali
"There is a saying that says, 'Loneliness is not good for anyone.' Loneliness even kills animals... Human beings need to live together."
Cover photo: Vegetable sellers like Ma Coulibaly in the Medina Market in Bamako depend on daily sales for their livelihoods. Photo Joan Baxter The first in the “Living through the coronavirus crisis: stories from the African continent” series comes from Mali in West Africa, with input from Oumou Nomoko, a young woman who lives in […]
Ask an expert: Q & A with Dr. Tom Frieden
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Tom Frieden, a former director of the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta as well as a former Commissioner of Health for New York City, was interviewed about coronavirus yesterday by reporter Helen Branswell. Branswell, who used to work for the Canadian Press, now writes […]