Nova Scotia reports 60 people in COVID-19 designated units on Saturday

Nova Scotia reported 60 people indesignated COVID-19 hospital units, including 12 in intensive care on Saturday.

The age range for peoplein hospital is 0 to 93years old,and the medianageis 63.

The number of COVID-19 admissions and discharges is not provided on weekends.

The province said Fridaythat 86per cent of Nova Scotia's population has received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, while 91.7 per cent have had one dose.

Unvaccinated Nova Scotiansare about 5times more likely to be hospitalized due to COVID-19 than someone with two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. That is based on average hospitalizations since the province started releasing daily hospitalization numbers by vaccine status on Jan. 4.

Unvaccinated people arealso about six times as likely to die of COVID-19 during the Omicron wavethan someone who had received a booster dose, based on numbers provided by the province and last updated on Feb. 11.

Since the Omicron wave began onDec. 8, 76NovaScotianshave died because ofCOVID-19.

There aretwo other groups of people in hospital related to COVID-19:

• 128 people who were identified as positive upon arrival at hospital but were admitted for another medical reason, or were admitted forCOVID-19but no longer require specialized care.
• 165 peoplewho contractedCOVID-19 after being admitted to hospital.

Nova Scotia Health labs completed1,633 tests on Friday and found 200 new cases of the virus.

There were 91 cases in the central zone, 41 cases in the eastern zone, 33 cases in the northern zone and 35 cases in the western zone

As of Friday, there were an estimated2,439active cases ofCOVID-19 in Nova Scotia.