Nova Scotia is reporting 54 new cases of COVID-19 and 102 recoveries.
There are 35 cases in Central Zone, 15 in Eastern Zone, three in Northern Zone and one in Western Zone.
The province indicates it is now reporting episode date on the COVID-19 data dashboard which means it is the date of illness onset; when a person first starts experiencing symptoms. If the person is asymptomatic, it is defined as the date the laboratory specimen was collected.
There is community spread in the Halifax region and in Sydney. Northern and Western Zones continue to be closely monitored for community spread.
Nova Scotia has 846 active cases of COVID-19. There are 72 people in hospital, including 20 in intensive care. The median age of people hospitalized in the third wave is 53 for non-ICU, and 58 for people in ICU.
On Monday, Nova Scotia Health Authority’s labs completed 3,973 tests.
More than 510,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the province and nearly 42,000 have received their second dose.
