As Nova Scotia moves to reopen the economy and allow certain businesses to open up again, the risk of contacting the coronavirus remains in place and so does the provincial state of emergency.
In the absence of a vaccine for the coronavirus, Nova Scotia independent senator Colin Deacon wants to see a national contact tracing app put in place as another tool to help public health officials to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. “The prime minister has indicated that the federal government wants to step up its role in terms of contact tracing and the investment it’s making with the provinces,” said Deacon. “But it has to do that collaboratively and I want to help wherever I can.” The tracing app would gather and use cellphone data to track and