No New COVID Cases In NS
The province is reporting no new COVID-19 cases today.
There are now four confirmed active cases in the province.
That’s down one from yesterday after health officials say one person has recovered.
The province is reporting no new COVID-19 cases today.
There are now four confirmed active cases in the province.
That’s down one from yesterday after health officials say one person has recovered.
The price of gas is expected to go up this week.
An increase of about three cents a litre is being forecast.
Meanwhile, the price of gas in New Brunswick went up by 3.2 cents a litre last night.
Diesel there increased by 2.9 cents.
Gas now goes for a minimum of 96.1 cents a litre in Cape Breton.
Diesel costs a minimum of 89.1 cents a litre on the island.
RCMP have released the name of the Cape Breton man charged after a fatal crash in the Halifax area community of Hubley yesterday.
28-year-old Corey Richard Patrick Blinkhorn from Howie Center is facing four counts of breaching court orders and single counts of Theft of a Motor Vehicle and Possession of Property Obtained by Crime.
A 28 year-old man who’d been living in Halifax died in the crash yesterday morning and Blinkhorn was arrested near the scene.
Police said yesterday the man they arrested was being charged with impaired driving but they now say he’s not facing that charge.
This comes after police say witnesses came forward with new information last night.
Police are now trying to find out who was driving the vehicle.
The provincial Health Authority has singled out another recent Halifax-bound flight as a high COVID-19 risk.
It says the flight out of Toronto landed in Halifax shortly after 11:00 on the night of June 26th.
Another flight earlier that day prompted another Health Authority advisory last week.
Anyone on the later flight could have been exposed, but the Health Authority says passengers in rows 29-33, seats A to C, are more likely to have been exposed.
Those people are being asked to call 811 for advice.
Health officials say they found a new case of COVID-19 in the province yesterday.
They say the person is a truck driver who traveled outside the country as an essential worker.
There’s now a total of five confirmed active cases of the virus in the province.