N.S. top doctor to provide update on influenza, COVID-19 cases | 24CA News
Nova Scotia’s prime physician is offering an replace on respiratory sicknesses within the province Friday.
Chief medical officer of well being Dr. Robert Strang will seem in a media availability at 11:30 a.m. The briefing will likely be livestreamed on this web page.
According to the province, there will likely be no new coverage bulletins.
Read extra:
Patients leaving overcrowded Nova Scotia ER with out being seen: managers
Read More
This comes after hospitals throughout the province have reported overcrowding or approaching overcrowding because of sicknesses together with influenza, RSV and COVID-19.
Capacity points embrace the province’s largest kids’s hospital, the IWK Health Centre, which reported six-hour lengthy wait occasions within the emergency division final month.
Chief of the division mentioned on the time 10 per cent of sufferers go away with out ever being seen by a physician.
Last week Global News reported that an e-mail to employees of Dartmouth General Hospital mentioned the stress on the emergency room has risen to the purpose the place there’s no house to evaluate sufferers and one in 10 individuals quit and go away.
COVID-19 and influenza instances
COVID-19 remains to be lively within the province. In a latest replace, Nova Scotia mentioned it recorded one other 515 constructive PCR checks between Dec. 6 and 12.
On Tuesday, there have been 34 individuals in hospital for COVID-19, together with seven in ICU.
No new deaths had been recorded final week, however one other three deaths had been added to the tally from the earlier reporting interval.
Since Dec. 8, 2021, when the Omicron waves started, 561 Nova Scotians died from COVID-19. A complete of 673 individuals died because the begin of the pandemic in 2020.
More than 53 per cent of Nova Scotians obtained not less than three doses of the vaccine, and 14.7 per cent haven’t obtained a single dose.
In a respiratory watch report for the interval from Dec. 4 to Dec. 10, the province recorded 686 new instances of Influenza A.
During that week, 100 individuals had been hospitalized, eight individuals had been admitted to ICU and 5 individuals died from the flu.
Since the top of August this 12 months, 25 Nova Scotians died after having a lab-confirmed case of influenza.
Public well being additionally reported 176 new RSV instances from Dec. 4-10. There had been additionally three instances of adenovirus, three instances of enterovirus or rhinovirus and one case of parainfluenza.
More to come back.
© 2022 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.
