Public health officials are working with community organizations and shelters across the Halifax Regional Municipality to develop a plan that will help reduce the threat of COVID-19 spread in populations of people who don’t have access to housing. “Everybody’s taking this seriously, it’s really urgent.
We’re really trying not to have any spread in the community because once it does then I’m really afraid that some of the shelters may have to close,” Jeff Karabanow said, one of the coordinators of the Out of the Cold: Emergency Winter Shelter in Halifax.
Nova Scotia public health announced five new presumptive cases on March 18, bringing the provincial total to 12. Repeated calls by government for people to practice social distancing and