NS Reporting Two COVID-19 Deaths, 10 Hospitalizations, 242 Cases

The province is reporting two more COVID-19 deaths, as well as 10 hospitalizations and a new outbreak at the Regional Hospital in Sydney.

Health officials say fewer than 10 people have tested positive in the latest outbreak at the hospital.

Those who died were a man in his 50’s and a man in his 70’s, both in the Eastern Zone.

There are 66 people in the province in hospital after being admitted because of COVID-19, including 11 people in intensive care.

242 new lab-confirmed cases are also being reported today.

Of those cases, 80 are in the Central Zone, with 67 in the Eastern Zone, 50 in the Northern Zone and 45 in the Western Zone.

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