Nova Scotia reports 95 people in designated COVID-19 units Sunday
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Nova Scotia reported 95 people in a designated COVID-19 hospital unit on Sunday — a drop from Saturday's 102, which was the highest number of hospitalizations reported in months.
Of those, 13 people are in intensive care.
In a news release, the province said the age range of people in hospital due to COVID is four to 95, with an average age of 65. Of the 95 people in hospital, 87 were admitted during the Omicron wave.
There are also two other groups of people in hospital related to COVID-19:
The number of COVID-19 admissions and discharges to hospital was not available Sunday.
Currently, unvaccinated Nova Scotians are about 3.5 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.
Nova Scotia labs completed 2,038 tests on Saturday and reported an additional 349 new lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19.
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