COVID-19 numbers are trending down again in Nova Scotia.
Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robert Strang confirmed 121 new cases Monday and 1,655 active infections.
Strang says the COVID-19 testing backlog is totally resolved and the tracing backlog will be soon.
“There’s always new cases coming in, bringing the level back up, but we’re pulling a lot more out than is new ones coming in,” he says.
“At the end of each day it’s lower than it was the day before, and I expect within the next day that we will no longer have that [backlog], cases in will be assigned and they go out for investigation with no delay.”
He says he’s very confident we won’t see an unexpected spike from the backlog again.
Strang says once it’s resolved, we’ll begin seeing true one-day case numbers again.
“We fully expect that by middle of the week we’ll start to get that number,” he says. “Then, I expect, we will start to see that slowly trend down over the next number of days.”
He says they have put a new compassion exemption at the border, for people moving here who’ve already closed their home and must leave, and who already have a new home in the province.
He says they don’t want to see anyone end up homeless.
Strang says 49 people are in hospital and nine are in ICU, but that number could rise as people infected in this wave progress through their infection.
