Child Dies Because Of COVID-19

The province says a child has died because of COVID-19.

Health officials are not saying where the child was from.

They do say the child was between the ages of 5 and 11.

The province is also reporting 10 more people are in hospital after being admitted because of COVID-19, while 12 others have been released.

There’s now a total of 82 people in the province in hospital after being admitted because of COVID-19, including 11 people in intensive care.

389 new lab-confirmed cases of the virus are being reported today.

Of those cases, 162 are in the Central Zone, with 48 in the Eastern Zone, 79 in the Northern Zone and a hundred in the Western Zone.

Bobby Nock

Bobby grew up in Whycocomagh before moving to Halifax to attend university where he earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Journalism degree. After university, Bobby moved back to Cape Breton where he began working as a freelance journalist and has done work for both print media and as a broadcast journalist. As the News Director, Bobby Nock will get your day started by bringing you information that helps connect you to the community with all the latest in local news.

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