| COVID-19 pandemic in Nova Scotia | |
|---|---|
| Disease | COVID-19 |
| Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
| Location | Nova Scotia, Canada |
| First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
| Index case | Kings County |
| Arrival date | March 15, 2020 [1] (4 years, 7 months, 3 weeks and 6 days) |
| Confirmed cases | 55,324 |
| Active cases | 10,698 |
| Hospitalized cases | 29 |
| Recovered | 44,381 |
Deaths | 657 |
| Fatality rate | 0.44% |
| Government website | |
| Government of Nova Scotia | |
The COVID-19 pandemic in Nova Scotia is an ongoing viral pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). On March 15, 2020, three presumptive cases in Nova Scotia were announced. All three were travel-related.[2]
The province is amongst four provinces in the Atlantic Bubble, along with New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland & Labrador which have reported a significantly smaller portion of cases during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. However, the bubble was suspended in November 2020 due to rising case counts in all four provinces. It was reintroduced in the Spring 2021, but suspended again in the fall of 2021.
As of March 25, 2022, Nova Scotia has reported 55,324 cases and has the seventh-most cases of COVID-19 in Canada.