Nova Scotia reports 87 in designated COVID-19 hospital units Saturday
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Nova Scotia reported 87 people in designated COVID-19 units on Saturday.
A news release from the province said 16 people are in intensive care with the virus.
In total, there are 331 people in hospital with COVID-19:
The number of hospital admissions and discharges was not provided on Saturday.
The average age of people in hospital is 67, the news release said.
Of the 87 people hospitalized because of the virus, 83 were admitted during the Omicron wave.
About nine per cent of Nova Scotians are not vaccinated for COVID-19.
Currently, unvaccinated Nova Scotians are about 3.5 to four times more likely to be hospitalized due to COVID-19 than someone with two doses of vaccine. That is based on average hospitalizations since the province started releasing the daily hospitalization numbers by vaccine status on Jan. 4.
About seven per cent of Nova Scotians, or roughly 72,000 people, are eligible to get the vaccine but haven't. Nova Scotia Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robert Strang said this group is being "disproportionately impacted by Omicron," representing 30 per cent of COVID-19 deaths since Dec. 8, and 21 per cent of hospitalizations.
There have been 32 COVID-19 related deaths this month.
Nova Scotia Health labs completed 3,670 tests on Friday detecting 503 new cases of COVID-19.
There were 234 cases in the central zone, 67 in the eastern zone, 78 in the northern zone and 124 in the western zone.
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