Nova Scotia reports 79 people in designated COVID-19 units Saturday
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Nova Scotia reported 79 people in designated COVID-19 units on Saturday, including 14 in intensive care.
The age range for those in hospital is nine to 93 and the median age of those in hospital is 65. Of the 79 people in hospital, 73 were admitted during the Omicron wave.
On Friday, Nova Scotia reported its youngest COVID-19 death, a child between five and 11.
Since the Omicron wave began on Dec. 8, 58 Nova Scotians have died because of COVID-19.
Nova Scotia's health authority did 2,222 tests on Friday and found 309 new cases of the virus. The central zone has 122 new cases, the eastern zone has 51, the northern zone has 50 and the western zone has 86.
As of Friday, there were an estimated 3,153 active cases of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia.
About nine per cent of Nova Scotians are not vaccinated against COVID-19.
As of Friday, unvaccinated Nova Scotians are about 4½ times more likely to be hospitalized or die due to COVID-19 than someone with two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. That is based on average hospitalizations since the province started releasing daily hospitalization numbers by vaccine status on Jan. 4.
Unvaccinated people are also more than seven times as likely to die of COVID-19 than someone who had received a booster dose.
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