Nova Scotia reports 11 deaths from COVID-19 in latest weekly update

Eleven Nova Scotians died from COVID-19 the week of Aug. 9-15, the province's updated COVID-19 dashboard showed Thursday.

There were an average of 206 daily COVID-19 cases during that time, a decrease from 249the previous week. Five deaths from COVID-19 were reported last week.

New hospital admissions due toCOVID-19 were 40, down from 46 a week ago.

Nova Scotia Health reported Thursday that:

• 50 patients are in hospital being treated for COVID-19, seven of whom are in intensive care.
• 127 patients in hospital have COVID-19 but are being treated for something else.
• 94 patients in hospital contracted COVID-19 after being admitted to hospital.

Nova Scotia Health reported 240employees off work on Thursdaydue to being diagnosed as positive for COVID-19, awaiting results of a COVID-19 test,or being exposed to a member of their household who tested positive for COVID-19.

The IWK Children's Hospital is reporting there are fewer than five children are in hospitalbeing treated for COVID-19.

Fifty-six staff members at the hospital are off work due to COVID-19 and 11 are self-isolating.

On July 6, the province limited who can access to PCR tests toselect groups who are symptomatic, including people over 50, front-line health care workers and immunocompromised people. People who test positive on a rapid test can no longer have their result confirmed via a PCR test.

Patients sick with COVID-19 who are admitted to hospital in Nova Scotia areno longer being treated separately from patients who don't have it.

Since March 2020, there have been 484COVID-19 deaths in Nova Scotia.

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