N.S. reports 92 people in designated COVID-19 hospital units Sunday

Nova Scotia reported 92people in hospital in designated COVID-19 units on Sunday.

The province said in a news release that 15people arein intensive care with the virus, down one from Saturday.

In total, there are 348people in hospital with COVID-19:

• 92 hospitalized due to the virus.
• 117 identified as positive upon arrival, but were admitted for another medical reason, or were admitted for COVID-19 but no longer require specialized care.
• 139 who contracted COVID-19 while in hospital.

Hospital admissions and discharges are not usuallyprovided on weekends.

The average age of people in hospital is 67, according to the release.

Of the 92people hospitalized because of the virus, 88 were admitted during the Omicron wave.

About nineper cent of Nova Scotians are not vaccinated for COVID-19.

Currently, unvaccinated Nova Scotiansare about 3.5 times more likely to be hospitalized due to COVID-19 than someone with two doses of vaccine. That is based on average hospitalizations since the province started releasing the daily hospitalization numbers by vaccine status on Jan. 4.

There have been 32COVID-19 related deaths this month.

Nova Scotia Health labs detected 425 new cases on Saturday after completing 2,999 COVID-19 PCR tests.

There were 211 cases in the central zone, 52 in the eastern zone, 57 in the northern zone and 105 in the western zone.

Atlantic Canada case numbers

• Prince Edward Islandreported one death and19 peoplein hospital on Saturday, with three in ICU.There were 271 new cases reported Saturday for a total of2,430 active cases. P.E.I. now has 10deaths due to COVID-19.
• New Brunswickreportedfive deaths on Sunday. There are 164 peoplein hospital because of the virus, including 13inICU and fiveon a ventilator. The province reported 274new positive PCR tests and 375 new positive rapid tests.
• Newfoundland and Labradorreported 23 peoplein hospitaldue to COVID-19 on Sunday.There were 210 new cases and 2,162 active cases.