Nova Scotia has extended its state of emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic by two weeks, the provincial government announced on Thursday.
A release said that cabinet convened by teleconference and agreed to ask the lieutenant governor to extend the state of emergency for another two weeks.
The order will take effect at 12 p.m. on Sunday and last until noon until April 19. As of Wednesday, there are 173 cases of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ] The province said the positive cases came after more than 1,000 COVID-19 tests were completed at the QEII Health Sciences Centre’s microbiology lab on Tuesday.