Scientists are now watching the Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5, which is on the rise in multiple countries.
Immunologists have called the new variant "immune evasive." Barrett says that means the virus mutates around your immune system. While that could mean more severe disease, Barrett says experts aren't certain if that's the case yet."The biggest thing that concerns me about these continuously evolving viruses is not that they're unexpected, but that we may not be doing the best job at keeping track of them anymore," she said.
One of those deaths happened between Dec. 20 and Jan. 2. The remaining 19 deaths are from a previous, unspecified time period. The province said these previous deaths could be from any past reporting period, but most likely to be within the last weeks or months.The province reported 1,553 new cases confirmed by PCR tests in the latest time period which covered two weeks — a daily average of 110 cases.
In a news release, the province said from Dec. 20 to Dec. 26, there were 687 PCR-confirmed cases — a daily average of 98 cases. From Dec. 27 to Jan. 3, there were 866 new PCR-confirmed cases — a daily average of 123. Nova Scotia Health reported 246 people in hospital with COVID-19 on Thursday. This is an increase from the previous reporting period when there were 164 people in hospital with COVID-19.99 were in hospital for something else but have COVID-19.The IWK Health Centre reported fewer than five hospitalizations on Thursday.
Nova Scotia Health said there were 94 employees off work Thursday due to being diagnosed with COVID-19, were awaiting test results or being exposed to a member of their household who tested positive.MORE TOP STORIES
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