66 New COVID Cases Reported

Written by Bobby Nock. Posted in Local News

The province is reporting 66 new cases of COVID-19 today.

61 of the new cases are in the Northern Zone, where health officials say there’s a cluster of cases among a group that’s mostly unvaccinated.

Five of the cases reported today are in the Central Zone.

There are no new cases in the Eastern Zone that includes Cape Breton.

With 18 new recoveries, there’s now a total of 173 known active cases of COVID-19 in the province, including two in the Cape Breton County Community Health Network.

Four people in the province are in hospital with the virus.

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Dr. Strang And Health Minister Thompson Hosting This Afternoon’s COVID-19 Briefing

Written by Bobby Nock. Posted in Local News

Another member of the government will join chief medical officer of health Dr. Robert Strang for this afternoon’s COVID-19 briefing.

Premier Tim Houston joined Dr. Strang for the first briefings after the provincial election.

But today, Strang will be joined by Health Minister Michelle Thompson.

Briefings held by the previous Liberal government had Premiers Stephen McNeil and Iain Rankin join Strang.

This afternoon’s briefing is scheduled to start at 3:00.

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Pizza Burger Regional Municipality’s Official Food?

Written by Bobby Nock. Posted in Local News

Regional Council meets tonight in the main concourse at Centre 200.

On the agenda at tonight’s meeting is the meaty subject of the municipality’s official food.

Councillor Lorne Green is sponsoring a motion to give the Pizza Burger that honour.

The motion was prompted by the 40^th year in business of Paul’s Food Factory in Whitney Pier.

The entire motion says the Paul’s Food Factory Pizza Burger be declared the municipality’s official food.

Tonight’s meeting is due to get underway at 6:00 this evening and will be streamed live online.

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Potential Exposure To COVID-19 On Two More Flights

Written by Bobby Nock. Posted in Local News

Public Health is warning about potential exposure to COVID-19 on two more flights.

The first is a WestJet flight from Calgary that landed in Halifax at around 5:45 on Saturday evening.

Public Health says passengers in rows 17 to 23 and seats A, B, C, and D who are not fully vaccinated should immediately isolate, even if they don’t have symptoms, and book a COVID-19 test.

Passengers in those rows and seats who are fully vaccinated don’t need to isolate or get tested, unless they develop symptoms.

Similar instructions apply to some passengers on a Swoop flight that left Halifax for Toronto at 10:45 on Friday morning.

People in rows 27 to 32 and seats C, D, E and F are affected on that flight.

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Seventy-three new COVID cases over the weekend, one in CBRM

Written by Donnie Antle. Posted in Local News

Nova Scotia is reporting 73 new cases over the weekend, including one new case in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality.

There are also four new cases in the Antigonish and Guysborough community health network.

Thirty-six of the new cases are in the Northern zone, 31 in the Central, and two in the Western.

Twenty-four Nova Scotians have recovered from COVID-19, including one in the regional municipality; the number of active cases in the province stands at 125.

Four people are in hospital with COVID, although no one is in intensive care.

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